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anegar.

to sink

6 characters3 syllables approx.Galego language

Meaning & usage

verb[aneˈɣaɾ]
  1. to sink

    archaic
  2. to flood, inundate, drown

    pronominal · transitive
Where this word comes from

Attested since the 14th century. From Old Galician-Portuguese [Term?], from Latin ēnecāre (“to kill”), or through a Vulgar Latin form *adnecāre, derived from necō. Compare Portuguese anegar, Spanish anegar, French noyer, Italian annegare, Romanian îneca, which also received the specialized sense of "to drown" from Late or Vulgar Latin.

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