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-al are bojedal, carpedal, Faedal, lauredal, nocedal, robledal, saucedal, and
another formation is seen in pomarada, equivalent to pomar. García de Diego
provides further illustrations from the dialects. From Mozarabic he quotes
cardeth(o), lauret and alommeda < ULMETA, which he says is the source of
Cast. alameda; also the place names Canit, Elchite, Fregenite point to
Mozarabic origins. From Asturo-Leonese we have Ablaneu,
castañedo/Castañeda, Encinedo, Fae(d)o (haedo, Jahedo, fa(y)eu), Frejeneda,
lloredo (Llo-)/Lloreda (from LAURU, not FLORE), Omedo, Periedo/Pereda,
Pineo, Ucedo/Ucieda (heath; cf. Uceda from Guadalajara, M.P., §55.1),
Viduedo (birch). We also find the same formation in roqu-edo/-eda ‘rocky
place’; this can be compared to It. sasseto/Sasseta, which in fact goes back to
Latin SAXETU.
t) When we come to Portuguese we find a surprising contrast. Here the
ground is occupied almost exclusively by -edo, though this is a dead suffix,
with -al used for the majority of present-day formations (and -ar in pomar).
Examples are arvoredo, alnedo and am(e)edo (alder; also Am(en)edo), old
ameixenedo (REW), Arazedo < *ELICETU, castanhedo and Castendo, Cerquedo
(cf. cerco, cerquino ‘oak’), figueiredo, Louredo, old olivedo, olmedo (and
olmedal), Pinhedo, revoredo and robledo (this from Spanish?), Salzedo (REW),
vinhedo, with the feminine forms Ameda, alameda (from Spanish?), Salzeda(s)
and urzeda (DCELC), and, with added -al, carpedal. The Galician forms given
by García de Diego provide some additions, but all in -edo (-ido):
Acib-edo/-ido, Abruñido, avele(n)do/Abelaindo, Carball-edo/-ido (oak),
Carrac-edo/-ido (holm-oak), Cerqu-edo/-ido, Codesedo (cytisus), Figueir-edo/
-ido, Freijido, Lourido, Nogueirido, reboredo/reboledo/Robledo, Sabacedo (=
Salzedo?), Sabucedo (elder), Torguedo (heath) and Verduc-edo/-ido (second
growth after felling). Portuguese also has rochedo corresponding to Sp.
roquedo. Judging from the placenames, the -eda ending would seem to be
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