panasco

Galician

Etymology

Unknown. Attested since circa 1750. Perhaps from pano +‎ -asco.^[1] Alternatively, from a substrate language, from Proto-Indo-European *pen- (“moist; wet; mud; swamp; water”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [paˈnaskʊ]

Noun

panasco m (plural panascos)

turf
- 1853, Juan Manuel Pintos, A Gaita Gallega:
  Corría por aquel monte tripando toxos, carrascos, e levantaba panascos que lexos guindaba atrás
  He ran around that hill treading gorses, heathers, and drawing turfs that he tossed far back
grass; meadow

Derived terms

Panascal

References

Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “panasco”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “panasco”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “panasco”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

^ Coromines, Joan; Pascual, José Antonio (1983–1991), “paño”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic etymological dictionary]‎^[1] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

[1] Coromines, Joan; Pascual, José Antonio (1983–1991), “paño”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic etymological dictionary]‎^[1] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

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