enxunlla

• ansula, anxulia, ensula, ensulla, ensunlla, enxulia

Attested since 1409. From Latin axungia (“axle grease”). Cognate with Portuguese enxúndia and Spanish enjundia.^[1]

• IPA^(key): [enˈʃunʎɐ]

enxunlla f (plural enxunllas)

1. grease; poultry fat
   • 1409, José Luis Pensado Tomé, editor, Tratado de Albeitaria, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 125:

     Para esto ual enprasto feito de çumo da alosna et do apeo et de çera et de exulla de porco uello et pouco de vjno branco et ferua todo esto desuun con fariña triga

     For this is good a plaster made of wormwood juice, and of celery, and of wax, and of old pork grease, and some white wine, and let all this boil with wheat flour

2. fat of the abdomen of the pig

   Synonym: unto

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “exulla”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “ensulla”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “enxunlla”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “enxunlla”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “enxunlla”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “ensulla”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN