Old Galician-Portuguese
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Inherited from Latin ligna, plural of lignum (“firewood”), thus a doublet of lenho.
lenha f
- firewood
- Fala: leña
- Galician: leña
- Portuguese: lenha (see there for further descendants)
lenha
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese lenha (“firewood”), from Latin ligna, plural of lignum (“firewood”). Cognate with Galician leña, Spanish leña, Catalan llenya, Occitan lenha, Romanian lemn and Italian legna.
lenha f (countable and uncountable, plural lenhas)
- firewood (wood intended to be burned)