Glossary entry

Spanish term or phrase:

ligajo

English translation:

livestock track

Added to glossary by LouC1482
Feb 13, 2019 18:50
5 yrs ago
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Spanish term

ligajo

Spanish to English Other Real Estate
I am translating a document regarding a finca in Tarragona.

I am struggling with the following:

Lindante toda la finca en su conjunto:
Norte, tierras de Sr XXXX, mediante un ligajo; Sur, Este y Oeste, con las de los consortes Sr XXXX y Sra XXXX.

The only reference I can find to 'ligajo' is 'Un ligallo (o su castellanización, ligajo) es un término aragonés para una agrupación local de pastores but not sure on a suitable translation in this context?

Thank you
Proposed translations (English)
4 +4 livestock track

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livestock track

This must be a Castilianisation of lligallo, which is a local word in Tortosa (Tarragona) for what is called a camí ramader or carrerada in standard Catalan and a vía pecuaria or cañada in Spanish.

"LLIGALLO m.
Camí ramader; faixa de terreny comunal que serveix per a passar-hi els ramats de bestiar que de la part baixa de l'Ebre van a pasturar a la muntanya (Tortosa).
Fon.: ʎiɣáʎo (Tortosa)."
http://dcvb.iecat.net/

"Els lligallos canareus. camins de transhumància a les terres de l’Ebre
[....]
resum
Es reivindica la recuperació i regulació de les vies pecuàries, al mateix temps que es proposen nous usos adaptats als temps actuals. Es remarca, en el cas del municipi d’Alcanar (Terres de l’Ebre), l’origen dels diferents nuclis de població al voltant d’aquests lligallos.
Paraules clau: carrerada, lligallo, camí ramader, transhumància, Alcanar.
resumen: Las cañadas de Alcanar [...]
abstract: The livestock tracks of Alcanar"
https://publicacions.iec.cat/repository/pdf/00000196/0000007...

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Note added at 10 hrs (2019-02-14 04:57:14 GMT)
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So I think "mediante un ligajo" means "con un ligajo en medio": there's a livestock trail between the northern boundary of the estate and Sr XXXX's property.

"Ligajo" does, or did, have other meanings. There are several references to a "ligajo de abejas" in this area, which seems to have been a beekeepers' association.
Note from asker:
Thank you very much, this one really had me scratching my head!
Peer comment(s):

agree Enrique Bjarne Strand Ferrer : https://ca.wiktionary.org/wiki/lligallo
5 mins
Many thanks, enrfer :-) That reference even has photographic evidence!
agree philgoddard
45 mins
Thanks, Phil!
agree JohnMcDove : I ara! Molt ben dit!
7 hrs
Moltes gracies, John :-)
agree neilmac : Your golden Sherlock Holmes hat is in the post... :)
13 hrs
LOL! Cheers, Neil ;-) (I had a job last year with quotations in 16thC Valencian and spent a lot of time looking things up in the DCVB.)
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