braña

braña f (plural brañes)

pasture; meadowland (especially a summertime pasture)
mountain settlement populated by vaqueiros d'alzada during summer or winter, composed of houses with thatch roofs called teitos

Attested in local Medieval Latin documents, as brania, at least since the 10th century.^[1] From a substrate language; perhaps from Proto-Celtic *bragnos (“rotten, faul”),^[2] either from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreHg- (“to smell, to have a strong odour”) or from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreg- (“to break”).^[3] Cf. Old Irish brén (“putrid, rotten”) and Welsh braenar (“fallow ground”).

braña f (plural brañas)

Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “brana”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “brana”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
“braña” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “braña”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “braña”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

[1]
Lapesa, Rafael (2004) Manuel Seco, editor, Léxico hispánico primitivo, Pozuelo de Alarcón: Ed. Espasa Calpe, →ISBN, s.v. branea.
[2]
Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983–1991) “braña”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
[3]
Zair, Nicholas (2012) The reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European laryngeals in Celtic, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 71.

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