Feminine
lechuza
Meaning
- (feminine) owl
- (feminine) barn owl (any species of owl from the family Tytonidae)
Concepts
common barn owl
Synonyms
chiringa
sijú cotunto
Siju
Mochuelo
chusqui
búho pequeño y agorero
Búho
Carabo
Siguapa
Translations
Eule
coruja
hibou
baykuş
gufo
uil
òliba
κουκουβάγια
kundFrequency
Hyphenated as
le‧chu‧za
Pronounced as (IPA)
/leˈt͡ʃuθa/
Etymology
In summary
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”).
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