estiñar

• estañar, estenar, estinar

Attested since 1409. From Latin stagnō. Compare Spanish restañar.

• IPA^(key): [estiˈɲaɾ]

estiñar (first-person singular present estiño, first-person singular preterite estiñei, past participle estiñado)

1. to staunch

   Synonym: estancar

   • 1409, G. Pérez Barcala, editor, A tradución galega do "Liber de medicina equorum" de Joradanus Ruffus, Santiago de Compostela: USC, page 165:

     devenna a mete na chaga para estañar [o sangue]

     they must put it inside the wound to staunch the blood

2. to dry

   Synonym: secar

   • 1697, Fabián Pardiñas, Eu oín a meus avós:

     Pero tamen me dijeron
     Si o nacer do sol toaba
     Cas moitas luces do dia
     Todo o raudal istiñaban.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

3. (of a mammal) to cease to produce milk

   Synonym: secar

4. (impersonal) to clear up, to clear (to stop raining)

   Synonyms: abrir, escampar

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “estanar”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “estiñar”, 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), “estiñar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “estiñar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN