salmoria

Old Leonese

Etymology

Inherited from Late Latin salimuria. Found in a document in Spanish with heavy Leonese influence dating to the 15th century.[1]

Noun

salmoria f

  1. salt water, brine
    • 1480, Tractatus de proprietatibus rerum (Leonese-influenced Spanish):
      ha sobre todo la salmoria mucho de tierra [...] por cuya razón las carnes endura y menos las da aparejadas a corrupción
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Descendants

  • Asturian: salmoria
  • Leonese: salmueira, samoria

References

  1. ^ María de las Nieves Sánchez González de Herrero, Manuscritos medievales asturiano-leoneses no literarios (from the University of Salamanca) in Lletres Asturianes nº100 (2009) Pgs.45-62