VERGARA1921-001 - lexical attestation
Burgos–Santander rutadera
Spain - Provinces of Burgos and Santander - Cantabria - Europe - Iberia
Function not recorded
rutadera
rutadera: from rutar, defined on the same page as 'zumbar, hacer ruido sordo; hablar entre dientes, murmurar' — to buzz, to make a dull noise, to mutter.
A dictionary is sometimes all that survives of an instrument. Compiling the village speech of Burgos and Santander in 1921, Gabriel María Vergara Martín set down rutadera: a little board of wood which, tied to a cord and made to spin fast, makes a noise. The next entry on the page gives the verb it comes from — rutar, to buzz, to make a dull sound, to talk between the teeth, to grumble. The board is named after a mutter.
Rutadera, f. — Tablita de madera que, atada a una cuerda y haciéndola girar rápidamente, produce ruido.
Gabriel María Vergara Martín, Materiales para un vocabulario de palabras usadas en algunos pueblos de las provincias de Burgos y Santander (1921), p. 95
- Object
- Small wooden board tied to a cord and rapidly rotated.
- Function
- Whirled rapidly to make noise.
- Source
- Vergara Martín 1921 exact definition; Devoto 1972 corroborates the class
- Source location
- p. 95
- Source confidence
- low Broad two-province anchor; no town supplied.