cendal

Galician

Unknown:^[1] from Old Galician-Portuguese çendal (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from the same origin that Old French cendal; perhaps from Latin sindon (“muslin”).

cendal m (plural cendais)

(historical) sendal (a light silk cloth)
- 1361, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros, Vigo: Galaxia, page 92:
  Iten, mando vender a miña cóffea do çendal e hua maça d'açeyro et se meta en missas por miña alma
  Item, I order that they should sell my sendal coif and a steel mace, to be put in masses for my soul
(regional) sieve

Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “çendal”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “çendal”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “cendal”, 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), “cendal”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

^ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “cendal”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

cendal m (plural cendales)

sendal
- 1915, Julio Vicuña Cifuentes, Mitos y Supersticiones Recogidos de la Tradición Oral Chilena, page 192:
  Las ánimas se aparecen, de preferencia, envueltas en cendales blancos, vaporosos, impalpables.
  (please add an English translation of this quotation)