yegua

Aragonese

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin equa, feminine form of equus (“horse”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁éḱwos (“horse”). Compare Catalan euga, Spanish yegua, Galician egua, Portuguese égua, Romanian iapă.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈʝeɡwa/
  • Rhymes: -eɡwa
  • Syllabification: ye‧gua

Noun

yegua f (plural yeguas)

  1. mare

References
  • “yegua”, in Aragonario, diccionario castellano–aragonés (in Spanish)
  • Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002) “yegua”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

Fala

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish yegua, from Latin equa.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈjeɡwa/

Noun

yegua f (plural yeguas)

  1. (Mañegu, Valverdeñu) mare

References
  • Valeš, Miroslav (2021) Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web)‎, 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published 2022, →ISBN

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish yegua, from Latin equa, feminine form of equus (“horse”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁éḱwos (“horse”).

Pronunciation
 
  • IPA(key): (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈʝeɡwa/ [ˈɟ͡ʝe.ɣ̞wa]
  • IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /ˈʃeɡwa/ [ˈʃe.ɣ̞wa]
  • IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈʒeɡwa/ [ˈʒe.ɣ̞wa]

  • Audio (Colombia):(file)
  • Rhymes: -eɡwa
  • Syllabification: ye‧gua

Noun

yegua f (plural yeguas, masculine caballo, masculine plural caballos)

  1. mare
  2. heifer
  3. (informal) a contemptible fat woman
  4. the letter Y in the Spanish spelling alphabet

Derived terms

Descendants
  • → Jakaltek: yewaẍ
  • → Oluta Popoluca: ye̱wa
  • → Tetelcingo Nahuatl: yehualama
  • → Tagalog: yegwa

See also

Further reading
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