Premoño
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Toponym derived from the Latin prati monium ('meadow of the mountain'), transparent Romance compound with the base pratum ('meadow') plus monium (locative variant of mons). The Asturleonese form, with characteristic palatalisation, designates the small pastoral hamlet of the Nora valley.
The compound pratum + monium, productive in Asturleonese toponymy, designates the high pastures of the Cantabrian foothills. The hamlet of Premoño is documented from 1098 as property of the San Vicente de Oviedo monastery. It preserves the Asturian rural houses of the 17th to 19th centuries with two 18th-century hórreos.
Evolution of the name
- pratum + monium late Latin 5th–9th centuries
- Premoño medieval Asturleonese from the 11th century
Glossary
- Asturian hórreo
- Traditional Asturian grain storage construction, characteristic of the northern peninsula, distinct from the Galician hórreo by its square plan and four-pitched tile roof. It is raised on four pegollos (stone feet) with tornarratos (slate layers to prevent rodent access). Asturias preserves more than eighteen thousand catalogued hórreos, the largest concentration in the world.
- Hórreo
- A traditional raised granary, set on stone pillars to protect it from rodents and damp. Galician ones are rectangular and of granite with gabled roofs; Asturian ones are square and of wood.
- Palatalisation
- A phonetic shift in which a sound is articulated against the palate. In Castilian: Latin nn → ñ (annus → año); preserved initial pl- (planus → plano) versus Asturleonese palatalisation to ll- (Llanes).
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