berro
See also: berrò
Galician
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbɛro̝/
Etymology 1
Back-formation from berrar (“to yell”).
Noun
berro m (plural berros)
Derived terms
- Berro Seco
Etymology 2
From a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia,[1] from Proto-Celtic *beruro- (“watercress”). Cognate with Spanish berro, Breton beler and Gaulish berula.[2][3]
Synonyms
- agrón
- brizo
Derived terms
- berro femia
References
- “berro” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “berro” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “berro” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
- Joan Coromines; José A. Pascual (1983–1991), “berro”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
- Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 62-63.
- Grzega, Joachim (2001) Romania Gallica Cisalpina etymologisch-geolinguistische Studien zu den oberitalienisch-rätoromanischen Keltizismen, Tübingen: M. Niemeyer, →ISBN, page 83 – via De Gruyter.
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈbɛ.ʁu/ [ˈbɛ.hu]
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /ˈbɛ.ʁu/ [ˈbɛ.χu]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈbɛ.ʁo/ [ˈbɛ.ho]
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈbɛ.ʁu/
Etymology 1
Deverbal from berrar (“to yell”).
Spanish
Etymology
From Gaulish *bẹrŭro-, from Proto-Celtic *beru, akin to Old Irish bir (“water, spring”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbero/ [ˈbe.ro]
Audio (Spain) (file) - Rhymes: -ero
- Syllabification: be‧rro
Derived terms
Further reading
- “berro”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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