yegua

Aragonese

Alternative forms

• yeugua

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

• egua (Lagarteiru, Mañegu)

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish yegua, from Latin equa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈjeɡwa/
• Rhymes: -eɡwa
• Syllabification: ye‧gua

Noun

yegua f (plural yeguas)

1. (Mañegu, Valverdeñu) mare

References

• Valeš, Miroslav (2021) Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web)‎^[1], 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): /ˈʝeɡwa/ [ˈɟ͡ʝe.ɣ̞wa]

• 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]

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• 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

• palo de yegua

 

Descendants

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

See also

• caballo

Further reading

• “yegua”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28