No. GOICOECHEA1961-001
Riojan zorrumba
Spain · La Rioja · Europe · Iberia
Play / practical
zorrumba / zorumba
Source term: zorrumba
zorrumba (also zorumba): imitative; Goicoechea says the toy's noise is the one the word itself expresses.
The zorrumba says its own name. In La Rioja it was a children's toy: a thin slat about a handspan long, tied by one end to a cord and whirled hard around through the air until it gave out a noise, as Cesáreo Goicoechea put it, like the very sound the word makes.
Particulars
- Object
- A thin slat about a handspan long, tied by one end to a cord.
- Function
- Children's toy, swung violently round through the air to make a noise like its name.
Source
Cesáreo Goicoechea, Vocabulario riojano, Anejos del Boletín de la Real Academia Española 6 (Madrid, 1961), p. 179, s.v. Zorrumba and Zorumba