10-02-2018, 09:04 PM
4049 escreveu:Vi que pixie é fada em inglês, ainda não entendi a associação com pequene.
Tem a ver com "fadas pequenas".
Citação:The origin of the name pixie is uncertain. Some have speculated that it comes from the Swedish dialectal pyske meaning wee little fairy.[6] Others have disputed this, given there is no plausible case for Nordic dialectal survivals in southwest Britain, claiming instead, in view of the Cornish origin of the piskie, that the term is more probably Celtic in origin, though no clear ancestor of the word is known. The term Pobel Vian ('Little People') is often used to refer to them collectively.[7][8] Very similar analogues exist in closely related Irish (Aos Si), Manx (Mooinjey Veggey) and Breton (korrigan) culture, although their common names are unrelated, even within areas of language survival there is a very high degree of local variation of names. In west Penwith, the area of late survival of the Cornish language, spriggans are distinguished from pixies by their malevolent nature. Closely associated with tin mining in Cornwall are the subterranean ancestral knockers.
