camiño

• caminho (Reintegrationist)

13th century. From Old Galician-Portuguese camỹo, caminno, from Vulgar Latin, Late Latin cammīnus; probably from Gaulish, although the earliest documentation of the word is from the 7th century, in Hispania.[1] From Proto-Celtic *kanxsman-, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)keng- (“to limp”). Cognate with Welsh camm, Irish céim, Celtiberian [Term?] (kamanom).[2] Compare Portuguese caminho.

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• IPA^(key): [kaˈmĩɲʊ]

camiño m (plural camiños)

1. path, road
   • 1348, A. López Ferreiro (ed.), Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática. Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 308:

     It. mando a as mallatarias do camio frances. et do camio de Padron .XXXX. sls. a cada hua

     Item, I bequeath to the leproseries on the French road and on the road to Padrón, 40 solidi to each one

2. route, way

   De camiño a casa pararei no forno. ― On my way home I'll stop by the bakery.

• “camiño” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “camiño” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “camiño” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “camiño” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “camiño” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.