leñame

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian legname or Old Catalan lenyam (modern llenyam); either way from Late Latin lignāmen.

Noun

leñame m (plural leñames)

wood; timber

Verb

leñame

second-person singular voseo imperative of leñar combined with me

References

Joan Coromines; José A. Pascual (1984), “leña”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volume III (G–Ma), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 631

Further reading

“leñame”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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