murciego
Old Spanish
editEtymology
editInherited from Latin *mūris caecus. By surface analysis, mur (“mouse”) + ciego (“blind”). First attested in 1250
Cognate with Old Galician-Portuguese *murcego.
Noun
editmurciego m (plural murciegos)
- bat
- 1250, Alfonso X of Castile, transl., Libro de los animales que caçan, page 106r:
- E quando uoʒebrearẽ mucho tomen granos de habarraʒ e dengelos en tres pedaçuelos de carne de murciego.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Descendants
edit- ⇒ Spanish: murciélago, morziegalo, murciégalo (obsolete)