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dorna.

trough used for holding wine before putting it into barrels

5 characters2 syllables approx.Galego language

Meaning & usage

noun[ˈdɔɾnɐ]
  1. trough used for holding wine before putting it into barrels

    feminine
  2. a boat typical of the Rías Baixas region, in Galicia

    feminine
Where this word comes from

Already attested as Latin dorna (“trough; concave”) in local 10th-century Latin charters. From a substrate language, from *dru-no- (“trough”), from Proto-Indo-European *dóru (“tree”). Alternatively from Proto-Celtic *durnos (“fist, hand”) (compare Breton dorn, Irish dorn); the word could have been first a unit of length, later becoming a unit of volume and a container, and later a ship, or either it was a reference to the concavity of the hand. Cognate with Spanish duerna, Occitan dorna and French dorne.

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