Feminine

From Old Spanish nechuza, influenced by leche (“milk”) due to a popular belief that owls “breastfeed” human infants at night. Coromines supposes that Old Spanish nechuza developed via vowel dissimilation from an older *nochuza, a derivative of an also-unattested *nochua (as gentuza < gente), and that inherited from Latin noctua (“owl”).

Feminine

lechuza

Frequency

Hyphenated as

le‧chu‧za

Pronounced as (IPA)

/leˈt͡ʃuθa/

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish

nechuza

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