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Ponteira (f)

(with) definite article: a
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Punteiro

From "puntos" [points (the mediaeval Spanish term for notes)] ?; According to Veiga de Oliveira a term used "in Spain - and in Portugal".

Sources

Veiga de Oliveira, Ernesto: Instrumentos musicais populares portugueses [1966]. Lisboa, 1982 (2), p.323 (»Meré).

Meré, Rafael: Museo Internacional de la Gaita: catálogo. Gijón, 1970, p.19 (etymology).