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The Suffix -āgo in Astur-Leonese-Galician Dialects

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2026

Yakov Malkiel
Yakov Malkiel*
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Language , Volume 19 , Issue 3-Part1: July-September , September 1943, pp. 256 - 258
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Copyright © 1943 Linguistic Society of America

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References

1 Cantigas d'amigo dos trovadores galego-portugueses, ed. J. J. Nunes (Coimbra, 1928).

2 Libro de los caballos: tratado de albeitería del siglo XIII, ed. G. Sachs, RFE Anejo 23 (Madrid, 1936).

3 Theoretically, -én could be traced back to *-Ǐgine also, which could have arisen on the analogy of such sets as -aclu, -uclu, -īclu, -īclu; -āceu, -ūceu, -īciu, -Ǐciu; yet there is no real need to postulate such a suffix for Vulgar Latin. On the development of -āgine > Sp. -én see R. Menéndez Pidal, Orígenes del español2 87–8 (Madrid, 1929).

4 Leandro Carré Alvarellos, Diccionario galego-castelán2 (La Coruña, 1933). Granduén is an obvious misprint for grandén.

5 B. Acevedo y Huelves and M. Fernández y Fernández, Vocabulario del bable de occidente (Madrid, 1932).

6 Compare Gal. mourenza ‘darkness’ and Asturian clarencia ‘clearness’, albencia ‘white glare’, whose suffix is modelled after -entia. Does -enza, -encia tend to absorb the scattered formations in -én < -āgine?

7 Rubién is quoted as occurring in the popular saying: Rubién de cena—por bien espera; rubién de mañana—viento o agua, which, freely translated, means: ‘If the sky is red in the evening, watch out for good luck; if it's red in the morning, there will be wind and rain’.

8 It is questionable whether -én is native to Galicia; it might have been imported from Leon. The normal development in the West is -āgine > -agem, due to the preservation of the intertonic vowel.

9 See W. Meyer-Lübke, Romanische Grammatik 2.470.

10 Much of the Latin material is based on Manu Leumann's discussion in Stolz-Schmalz, Lateinische Grammatik5 241–2.

11 Compare hebén, lairén, designating species of the grape and listed in dictionaries of standard Spanish.

12 In addition to the eight formations quoted in the body of the text, note OPtg. magrém ‘meagerness’, the antonym of gordén; it is quoted in Fr. J. de Santa Rosa de Viterbo, Elucidario 2.102 (= magreira); see also Samuel Usque, Consolaçam as tribulaçoens de Israel, ed. Mendes dos Remedios, 3.37a; the glossary to this book contains a further reference to Bernardes.