dorna

Etymology

Already attested as dorna ("container", "concave") in local 10th-century Latin charters. From a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia, from Proto-Celtic *durno- (“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,^[1] 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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɔɾna̝/

Noun

dorna f (plural dornas)

1. trough used for holding wine before putting it into barrels
2. (nautical) a boat typical of the Rías Baixas region, in Galicia

See also

dorna on the Galician Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^gl

References

• “dorna” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “dorna” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “dorna” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “dorna” in Santamarina, Antón (coord.): Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
• “dorna” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.