canaveira

• caniveira

Attested since circa 1300. From canavea (“reed”) +‎ -eira.

• IPA^(key): [kanaˈβejɾɐ]

canaveira m (plural canaveiras)

1. common reed

   Synonym: carrizo

   • 1300, R. Martínez López, editor, General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV, Oviedo: Archivum, page 254:

     Et aquel deus Pam [...] estando el aly veẽo hum pouco de vento et moveo aquelas canaueyras et fazia em ellas hũ som que dizia syrim et esto era que aquelas canaveyras [queriã] dizer ¡Syringa!

     And while being there this god Pan [...] a little wind came and moved those reeds, and made in them a sound that says syrim, and this is what these reeds wanted to say: Syringe [panpipes]!

2. cane

   Synonyms: cana, canavela

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “canaveyra”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “canaueyra”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “canaveira”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “canaveira”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “canaveira”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN