comedio

en este comedio poderemos soterrar et queymar aqueles que jazẽ mortos ẽno cãpo

1370, R. Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana. Introducción e texto, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 408:

during this interlude we can bury and burn the ones who lie dead on the field

Iten mando mais se diga hua misa cantada a onrra e gloria de san salvador e outra de nosa señora santa maria virgen e madre de deus e outra ao senor san pedro e santiago apostoles e outra a san miguel e santo angel da garda e outra a san bieyto enna sua ermida do monte desta dita fregesia e outra de requien por todo los finados e sepoltados enna dita iglesia de Lantaño e estas seys misas sejan cantadas por miña devoçion e todas huas e outras sejan enno cargo de meus conpridores que as façan deçir logo enno comedio de un ano despois que eu for sepoltado.

1473, A. López Ferreiro, editor, Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática, Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 28:

Item more, I order that they recite a sung mass in the honor and glory of the Holy Saviour; and another to our lady the Virgin Saint Mary, mother of God; and another to the lords Saint Peter and Saint James the apostles; and another to Saint Michael and the holy guardian angel; and another to Saint Benedict in his chapel atop the hill in this parish; and another one of requiem for all the ones dead and buried at this church of Lantaño; and these six masses must be sung for my devotion, and all of them must be at the expenses of my executors, who must order them then in the term of a year since I am buried.


pardiñeiro

12th century (pardinarium, in Latin documents). From Old Galician-Portuguese *pardĩeyro, from Vulgar Latin *parietinario or rather from pardiña + -eiro, from Latin parietina (“old or ruined wall”). Cognate with Portuguese pardieiro.

aquellas casas telladas et pardineyros et cortina con suas aruores et herdades que estan enna villa de Çençoy

1327, Lucas Alvarez, Manuel & Justo Martín, María José (eds.), Fontes documentais da Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Pergameos da serie Bens do Arquivo Histórico Universitario (Anos 1237-1537). Santiago: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 76

those tiled houses and ruins and orchard with its trees and possessions that are in that village of Cenzoi


pardiña

From Old Galician-Portuguese *pardĩa, from Latin parietina (“old or ruined wall”). Cognate with Occitan pardía (Gascon).


queiro

From Latin dente canario (“canine tooth”).


veiga

Debated. Attested as vaica in Medieval Latin documents since the 9th century. From Paleo-Hispanic. Cognate with Spanish vega.

unk

Debated


poldra

one of several stones placed in a river by way of a bridge


escudela

12th century. From Old Galician-Portuguese escudela, from Latin scutella, a diminutive form of Latin scutra (“tray, dish, platter”).

cada anno por dia de natal des soldos de leoneses ou a contia delles por foros et huna escudela de folloas de seseenta ovos

1363, Miguel Romaní Martínez (ed.), La colección diplomática de Santa María de Oseira (1025-1310). Santiago: Tórculo Edicións, page 305

each year, by Christmas day, you shall give ten Leonese solidi, or its value in kind, and a tray of crêpes of sixty eggs


caíño

gl-noun

caíño m (plural caíños, feminine caíña, feminine plural caíñas)

caíños (plural)
caíña (feminine)
caíñas (feminine plural)

From Latin canīnus (“canine”). Cognate with Portuguese cainho.

Brancellao e Caíño, os pais do viño

Brancellao and Caíño [grapes are] the wine's parents

one of several autochthonous Galician varieties of grape which produce wines with high acidity


brancellao

From an older *baroncellão ("from the territory of Baroncelle"), from Medieval Latin Baroncelli, an ancient county or territory corresponding to the high valley of the river Támega in Galicia. Baroncelli itself is the genitive singular of the local medieval personal name Baroncellus.

Brancellao e Caíño, os pais do viño

an autochthonous Galician variety of sweet grape

Repinicáde o pandeiro,
Nenas dos portos de mar;
Para tocálo Rianxo
E a Avia para bailar.
O Miño tempére a gaita,
Anque marre o brencellau;
E mais que non quede pinga,
Xarro tras xarro e brindár.
Os barrosos e pardiños,
Xuro a brios, que an de danzar,
Sin que o estorven as cadrillas
Dos valentes Roquetaus.

Ring your tambourine,
girls from the sea harbours;
[best] at playing it, Rianxo;
the land of Avia, at dancing.
Let the Miño tune the bagpipe,
even if the brancellao wine is not enough;
Do not leave a drop,
pitcher after pitcher and toast.
Highlanders and lowlanders,
I swear they ought to dance,
no fault on the teams
of the valiant people of Lemos.

monovarietal wine produced with that grape


rifón

rifóns (plural)
rifom (alternative)
rifão (alternative)

smallish stallion used to prepare a mare on heat


almallo

almallo m (plural almallos, feminine almalla, feminine plural almallas)

almallos (plural)
almalla (feminine)
almallas (feminine plural)
almalho (alternative)

13th century. From Old Galician-Portuguese almallo, probably from Latin animalium, via a medieval *anmallo; attested as almalio and animalio since the 9th century. Cognate with Portuguese almalho, Spanish alimaña, French armaille.

Item trago en cas de Fernan de Gyndil as cartas de duas vacas et de hun almallo et de hun boy manso

1433, Lucas Alvarez, Manuel & Justo Martín, María José (eds.), Fontes documentais da Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Pergameos da serie Bens do Arquivo Histórico Universitario (Anos 1237-1537). Santiago: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 332

Item, I have in the house of Fernán de Xendil the charters of two cows, a bull, and a tame ox

Cando o indómito almallo Napoleón Bonaparte prantar o seu estandarte no chao de Roma tentou [...]

1851, José García Mosquera, Poesías, Ourense: La Región, page 76

When the untamed bull, Napoleon Bonaparte, tried to plant his standard on the ground of Rome …


cadela de frade

cadela de frade f (plural cadelas de frade)

/kaˈðɛla̝ðeˈfɾaðe̝̝/

From cadela (“female dog”) + de (“of”) + frade (“friar”).


rabiza

From rabo (“turnip; tail”), and the suffix -izo.

Brassica rapa
Brassica rapa#Translingual

(botany, cooking) young turnip greens (Brassica rapa)


rabiza

string or rope attached to an object (a bucket, a net) and used to pull from it


garrafón

From garrafa + -ón. Compare Portuguese garrafão.


caneco

Cando vaias de parranda / non te esquezas do caneco / bótalle un litro de viño / non che vaia quedar seco

Whenever you go in a spree / don't forget about your pitcher / put a litre of wine in it / lest it be dry


galeguista

galeguista m or f by sense (plural galeguistas)


lomba

Attested since the 13th century (since the 9th century in local Latin documents); from lombo (“back”). Compare Spanish loma.


faramalla

faramallas (plural)
zaramalla (alternative)

From Medieval Latin farmalio (“deceit, fraud”), probably itself from *malfario: compare Italian malfare, French malfaire.

der

Diras que todo esto he Palla;
por que te ues conuencido
ben sei que o que esta vencido
di, que todo he faramalla:

c. 1780, anonymous author, Cincuenta décimas contra Cernadas:

You'll say that all of this is straw [unnecessary]
because you see yourself convinced
I know well that the defeated one
says that everything is claptrap


lobicán

wolf dog (a hybrid between a wolf and a dog)


resío

resíos (plural)
recío (alternative)
rexío (alternative)

Derived from rociar, from Vulgar Latin *rōscidāre, from Latin rōscidus. Compare Spanish rocío.


resío

13th century. From Old Galician-Portuguese [Term?], probably from Latin residuus. Cognate with Portuguese rossio.

uncultivated strip of land around a house or field, belonging to the same property

strip of land which is left behind a wall or fence but which belongs to the same property


cóengo

From Old Galician-Portuguese cõẽgo, from Late Latin canonicus (“canon”), from Ancient Greek κανονικός (kanonikós). Cognate with Portuguese cónego, Spanish canónigo.

mando que non possan tomar as ditas pesoas et coengos et homes boos da dita iglesia por panigoados os ofiçiales conuen a saber os carpenteiros et pedreiros et carniçeyros et ferreyros et çapateyros et peliteyros et mercadores

1389, Enrique Cal Pardo, editor, Colección diplomática medieval do arquivo da catedral de Mondoñedo, Santiago: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 207:

I command that no churchman or canon or good man of that church could take for a stooge any official, i.e., the carpenters and stonemasons and butchers and smiths and shoemakers and furriers and merchants

(ecclesiastical) canon (member of a cathedral's chapter)


troula

Unknown. Perhaps related to Old French troubler (“to disturb”) or to Old French drolle (“joker”).

Nenos! Abonda de troula. Agora, a recoller os xoguetes!

Children! Enough play; now, pick up your toys!


entrouso

entrousos (plural)
entrouxo (alternative)

Perhaps from Latin introrsum (“inwards”).

a peg or wedge used to fasten the wheel to the axle of a traditional Galician cart


louza

From Latin lautia (“toiletries”), collective form derived from lautus (“washed”), or alternatively from lutea (“of clay”). Cognate with Portuguese louça and Spanish loza.

(uncountable) china (ceramic or porcelain)


louza

(uncountable) tools for cutting brushwood

(uncountable) mown grass and greens used either for litter or as fodder


felgo

From Old Galician-Portuguese [Term?], from Vulgar Latin *felicu, from Latin filix (“fern”).


folgueira

folgueiras (plural)
felgueira (alternative)
filgueira (alternative)

From Old Galician-Portuguese felgueyra, from Vulgar Latin *filicaria, from Latin filix (“fern”). Compare Portuguese felgueira, Asturian folguera, Spanish helguera Catalan falguera, French fougère.


fieito

fieitos (plural)
faínto (alternative)
fento (alternative)

From Old Galician-Portuguese *feeyto, from Latin filictum (“place with ferns”). Cognate with Portuguese feto, Spanish helecho.


fento

fentos (plural)
faínto (alternative)
fieito (alternative Galicia Northern)


artello

From Vulgar Latin *articlus, a syncopated form of articulus (digiti). Compare the learned and semi-learned doublets artículo and artigo. Cognate with Portuguese artelho, Spanish artejo, Catalan artell, French orteil.

Et tomarõ dous [uasos] d'esmeraldas preçiosas, as mays fremosas que nũca õme ueu, cheas de bálsamos et de aloe, et metérõlle y os pees ata os artillos

1370, Ramón Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 471:

They took two vessel of precious emeralds, the most beautiful never seen, full with balsams and aloe, and they put his feet there inside, up to the ankles


chencha

/ˈt͡ʃɛnt͡ʃa̝/

Perhaps a semi-learned borrowing from Latin scientia.

slbor

Pobre home! Está mal da chencha!


entrefollo

entrefollos (plural)
santafollo (alternative)

From Latin centum (“a hundred”) + folium (“leaf, sheet”), attracted by entre ("between; inside").


santafollo

santafollos (plural)
entrefollo (alternative)

From Latin centum (“a hundred”) + folium (“leaf, sheet”).


refollo

From Latin re- (“backwards”) + folium (“leaf, sheet”).

sheet or flake that breaks off or protrudes from a metal; imperfection

1889, anonymous, in A Tia Catuxa. Somanario gallego de intereses rexionales e literatura, nº 2, Pontevedra, page 7

A crease of the leather of a sabot hurt the ankle of my right foot

Un refollo do coiro dun zoco magoume o artello do pé direito


gromo

14th century. From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin grumus. Compare Portuguese gomo.

circa 1350, Kelvin M. Parker (ed.), Historia Troyana. Santiago: Instituto Padre Sarmiento, page 30

And he saw nothing but that wooden log that was dry and then it turned green, and it put [?] buds with leaves of its fruit of olives

Et nõ catou al senõ aquel fuste que era seco et logo se tornou verde, et meteu gromos cõ follas de seu froyto de azeytunas


gallada

From gallar (“to branch, bifurcate”) + -ada.


bazuncho

Unknown. Probably unrelated to zuncho (“girdle”).


ieste

From Paleo-Hispanic, perhaps from Proto-Celtic *enistī.


cancil

cancís (plural)
chancil (alternative)
quencil (alternative)

From a substrate term *cambica (etymon of canga), derived with the Latin suffix -īle: *cambicīle; from Proto-Celtic *kambos (“twisted, crooked”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kh₂emb- (“to bend, curve”). Cognate with Portuguese canzil.

der

each one of the staves of a withers yoke


mendrello

Unknown. Probably related to Spanish mendrugo (“piece of bread”); compare also mendo (“patch”).


escacho

15th century. Unknown; perhaps from escachar (“to tear”).


illarga

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese illarga (14th century). From Vulgar Latin *iliarica, from Latin īlia, plural of īle (“guts, intestines”). Cognate with Portuguese ilharga.

inh+

(anatomy) flank (flesh between the last rib and the hip)


illar

From Old Galician-Portuguese jllal (attested in the form jllaes), from Vulgar Latin *iliaris, from Latin īlia, plural of īle (“guts, intestines”). Cognate with Portuguese ilhal and Spanish ijar.

flank, side, region between the ribcage and the hip in mammals


morea

From a substrate language. Cognate with Portuguese moreia (“debris”), Spanish morena (“moraine”) and French moraine.


bandullo

bandullos (plural)
bandulho (alternative)
pantullo (alternative)

sweet pudding that in the past was cooked inside a pig's stomach


cóxegas

/ˈkɔʃe̝ɣa̝s/

From cozar (“to scratch”). Cognate with Portuguese cócegas; compare also Spanish cosquillas.

tickling, tickle (feeling resembling the result of tickling)


celigras

celergas (alternative)
deligras (alternative)
teligras (alternative)


chambergas

From chamberga (“long coat”), after the Chamberga or Royal Guard of Spain, whose popular name -given to them because of the coats they wore- was a corruption of the name of the 17th-century French general Schomberg.


milgranda

13th century. From Old Galician-Portuguese milgrãada, from Latin mālogrānātum, possibly influenced by mille-grana (“thousand seeds”). Cognate with Portuguese milgrada; cf. also Catalan magrana.

Punica granatum
Punica granatum#Translingual


milgrandeira

15th century. Ultimatelly from Latin mālogrānātum + -eira.

Outrosy que a dita miña yrmáa Eynés Gonçales que aja a milgradeira que está ao canto da casa do dito Aluaro Afonso, notario, e vna ouliueira que está en'cabo da dita orta
Also, that my aforementioned sister Inés Gonzalez could have the pomegranate tree that is by the house of the aforementioned Álvaro Afonso, notary, and an olive tree that is by this garden

1446, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 180:


calella

From Latin *callicula (“little road, little street”), diminutive of callis, or from canalicula (“little channel”). Compare Spanish calleja and canaleja.

inh

1339, M. Lucas Alvarez; P. P. Lucas Domínguez (ed.), San Pedro de Ramirás. Un monasterio femenino en la Edad Media. Colección diplomática. Santiago: Publicacións de Caixa Galicia, page 488

on the other extreme they depart from the alley that comes from Penedo to the houses of the abbot of Celanova, and ends in the plaza before the council's tower

do outro cabo parten per la callela que uen do Penedo pera as cassas do abbade de Cellanoua et entesta en o eirado dante a torre do conçello


ancoradoiro

From áncora + -doiro. Cognate with Portuguese ancoradouro.


lamela

From local Medieval Latin lamella, a diminutive of lāma (“mud; meadow”).


lamela

From Latin lāmella, a diminutive of lāmina (“plate”).

a thin piece, plate or sheet of metal or wood


couto

os ditos reos quebrantaron as condiçõẽs do dito foro e foran contra o dito moesteiro e priores del, por ende que avian perdido o dito couto e herdades; e non se escusauan da dita vasalajẽẽ e seruentia por dizer que eran fidalgos, pois que se obligaron a elo

1421, Manuel Lucas Álvarez, editor, El priorato benedictino de San Vicenzo de Pombeiro, page 163:

said defendants broke the condition of said contract and acted against said monastery and priors, and so they had lost said fief and properties; and they were not exempt of said vassalage and ought services saying that they were noblemen, because previously they had obliged themselves to it

(historical) jurisdiction (territory), fief

(archaic) fine (fee issued as punishment for breaking the law)


solleiro

solleiros (plural)
soalleiro (alternative)

From asollar (“to sunbathe”) + -eiro, from sol (“sun”).


solpor

From sol (“sun”) + pór (“set”). Cognate with Portuguese sol-pôr.


solaina

Attested since 1484. From sol (“sun”) + -aina.

fixo unha casa nova de sótano e de sobrado co outón de pinche pró Norte que refrescara o faiado, solaina pró mediodía por coller sol ó socairo co seu gran patín de pedra e madeiras de castaño

1858, Juan Manuel Pintos, Contos da aldea que parecen historias da vila e historias da vila que parecen contos da aldea:

he built a new house, with ground and upper floor, with the gable facing north for refreshing the attic, sunroom to the south for catching the sun while sheltered, with its large balcony of stone and chestnut wood

sunroom; a covered balcon or elevated gallery, usually oriented so that it receives a lot of sunlight


soaxe

From Latin solagīnem (“borage, starflower”).

Borago officinalis
Borago officinalis#Translingual


borraxe

From Old Galician-Portuguese *borragẽ, from Medieval Latin borāgīnem (“borage”). Cognate with Portuguese borragem and Spanish borraja.


monteira

From monte (“hill, woodland, wild”) + -eira. Cognate with Spanish montera.

Palurdos que vos vestides,
Como eu, de sayo de lá,
Polainas, zocos, monteira,
E un bo baloco na man

1820, Manuel Pardo de Andrade, Os servís e os liberás:

Rustics that wear,
as myself, with a woolen robe,
gaiters, clogs, cap
and a good staff in hand

traditional pronged Galician cap or hat wore by men, and whose design traditionally revealed the geographic origin of the user


faragulla

faragullas (plural)
frangulla (alternative)
farangulla (alternative)
fragulla (alternative)
furgalla (alternative)

crumb (a small piece which breaks off from baked food)


vetillo

From Vulgar Latin *vecticulus, from vectis (“pole”).

muzzle (wickerwork or wood device used to prevent an animal, specially cattle, from eating; it is worn on its snout)


castrón

castróns (plural)
castrom (alternative)
castrão (alternative)

From castrar (“to castrate”) + -ón; compare capón.


fieito real

Osmunda regalis
Osmunda regalis#Translingual


dentabrún

dentabrúns (plural)
dentabrú (alternative)
dentagrón (alternative)
dentagrúo (alternative)
dentragón (alternative)
dentabruño (alternative)
dentagruño (alternative)

Debated. Apparently a compound: dente (“tooth”) + abruño (“sloe”) / agrión (“watercress”).

unk

Debated


dentexil

dentexís (plural)
lentexil (alternative)

Debated


noiteboa

noiteboas (plural)
noitebra (alternative)
noitarega (alternative)
noitébrega (alternative)

From Latin *noctivola or noctivaga (“wandering in the night”). Cognate with Portuguese noitibó.

Caprimulgus europaeus
Caprimulgus europaeus#Translingual

Eurasian nightjar (Caprimulgus europaeus)


noitebra

noitebras (plural)
noiteboa (alternative)
noitarega (alternative)
noitébrega (alternative)


caluga

calugas (plural)
caluba (alternative)
coliga (alternative)

Unknown. Probably from substrate language.

pois penso que desvarías
desd'a caluja hastr'os pés

1838, Florencio Pol, Espello de deputados:

then I think that you are delusional
from top to toe


Noiteboa

19th century. From noite (“night”) + boa (“good”). Compare Spanish Nochebuena.

Christmas Eve (the evening before Christmas Day)


espionaxe

Borrowed from French espionnage, from Middle French espionner (“to spy”), from Old French espion (“spy”), itself probably from a Germanic source (akin to Old High German spehon (“spy”)), possibly via Italian spione (from spia).


pedra de abalar

gl-noun

pedra de abalar f (plural pedras de abalar)

From pedra (“rock, stone”) + de (“of”) + abalar (“to rock”).


pedra cabaleira

pedra cabaleira f (plural pedras cabaleiras)

From pedra (“rock, stone”) + cabaleira (“sat, upped”).


curuto

Attested since the 12th century, in Latin charters. Probably from a substrate language: compare Proto-Celtic *kruttos (Welsh crwth (“hump, hunch”)), and also Latvian krūts (“teat”), Lithuanian krūti̇̀s (“breast”).

top of a conical structure, heap or mountain

(by extension) top or highest point of any standing object or structure

tassel (the panicle on a male plant of maize)


milladoiro

milladoiros (plural)
amilladoiro (alternative)

From older omilladoiro, from humillar + -doiro, "place to bow; place to humble".

ceremonial cairn built through the contribution of stones by pilgrims


arroutado

arroutado m (plural arroutados, feminine arroutada, feminine plural arroutadas)

arroutados (plural)
arroutada (feminine)
arroutadas (feminine plural)
arrautado (alternative)

18th century. From arrouto (“outburst”) + -ado.


arroutada

arroutadas (plural)
arrautada (alternative)
arreutada (alternative)
routada (alternative)

[…] os empregados non se deixan asoballar pola súa maldade, e o mesmo porteiro deprendeu a poñerlle cara de can. Somente Pedro é un manteiguiñas, incapaz de defenderse. A covardía do xefe cabalga na covardía de Pedro, para locí-las arroutadas que non é quen de descargar no lombo dos outros. Pedro sofre en silenzo; pero cóme-no as xenreiras, e non pode ollá-la cara daquel home sen desexarlle a morte.

1934, Castelao, Os dous de sempre, page 127:

[…] employees don't allow him to humiliate them with his meanness, and even the doorman learnt to put an angry face for him. But Pedro is a poor thing, unable to defend himself. The boss' cowardice rides Pedro's, to show off the outbursts that he is incapable of discharging over other's shoulders. Pedro suffers in silence; but spite eats him, and he can't watch that man's face without wishing him death.


raxo

From Latin radius (“ray, rod, spoke”). Doublet of raio.

Hoxe temos raxo con patacas.

Today we have pork loin with French fries / chips.

Mal raxo te parta!

(I wish that) a bad lightning will cleave you!

a soil layer of different color and composition that the ground


rustrido

(cooking) sofrito (fried onion, garlic and sweet pipper)

(cooking) sauce made of olive oil, garlic and paprika


caldeirada

(cooking) Galician seafood stew, traditionally prepared by the fishermen on their boats, composed of fish boiled with potatoes and seasoned with a rustrido ("sofrito")

(cooking, derogatory) an excessive amount of food

(cooking, derogatory) a badly cooked stew


restra

restras (plural)
rastra (alternative)
resta (alternative)
reste (alternative)
restre (alternative)

14th century. From Latin restis (“rope”). Cognate with Spanish ristra.


amoado

amoados (plural)
almoado (alternative)
moado (alternative)

Past participle of the verb amoar (“to mill”), from Latin mola (“millstone”).

batter, liquid dough for the preparation of filloas and other pasties

chopped marinated pork for the elaboration of sausages and chourizos


allada

From allo (“garlic”) + -ada. Cognate with Spanish ajada, Italian agliata.


liorta

Attested since 1813. Blend of liorna (“palaver”) + loita (“fight”), probably.

blend

bufe o escribano ladrón, que o pelexo me sacou, e breme o que me acabou con trabucos, e liortas: gráceas dan as miñas portas a quen así os xiringou.

1813, anonymous author, Decima constitucional:

let him hiss, the thief scribe who took my hide; and let him fret, he who finished me with tributes and struggles: thanks are given by my doors to whom that so disturbed them


labrego

gl-noun

labrego m (plural labregos, feminine labrega, feminine plural labregas)

labregos (plural)
labrega (feminine)
labregas (feminine plural)

[laˈβ̞ɾɛ.ɣ̞ʊ]

[laˈβ̞ɾɛ.ɣ̞ʊ]

[laˈβ̞ɾɛ.ħʊ]

From labrar (“to work the land”) + -ego. Cognate with Spanish labriego.

Por aquí nacen os ricos polo outro probes labregos. Estas son as dúas castes que hai en todo o mundo inteiro.

1853, Juan Manuel Pintos, A Gaita Gallega, Pontevedra: Impr. de D. José e D. Primitivo Vilas, page 29:

Here the rich people are born, there the poor peasants; these are the two races that there are in the whole world


día santo

Escusa vir: hoxe é día santo e a oficina non abre.

Don't come: today is a holyday, and the office won't open.

Iten mays, que dían e pagen á dito Sueyro Martís por todos los días soltos que foren de labor quinse mrs da dita moneda et por los dias santos e domingos que él folgar, que non foren de labor, seys mrs da dita moneda, pagos en fyn de cada somana

1443, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 423:

Additional item: they should pay the aforementioned Sueiro Martís, for every single working day, 15 maravedís; and for the holidays and Sundays that he rests 6 maravedís, that should be paid on the weekend


regueifa

12th century in Latin documents. From Arabic رَغَائِف (raḡāʔif), plural of رَغِيفَة (raḡīfa, “loaf”), colloquial variant of رَغِيف (raḡīf, “loaf”). Cognate with Portuguese regueifa and Spanish regaifa.

improvisation contest (initially held for gaining the cake)

cada dia de natal darnos edes huna boa regueyfa de trigo et duas boas galynas

1389, M. Romaní Martínez (ed.), La colección diplomática de Santa María de Oseira (1025-1310). Santiago: Tórculo Edicións, page 408

each Christmas day you'll give to us a good loaf of wheat and two good hens

Christobo:
Eu cortarey o molete.
Cathalina:
Tomà vos essa rigeyfa,
porque tamen e pantrigo.

1707, Salvador Francisco Roel, Entremés ao real e feliz parto da nosa raíña:

Christobo:
"I'll cut the muffin"
Cathalina:
"Take that loaf,
because it is also wheat bread"


vedraño

vedraños (plural)
vedranho (alternative)

From Vulgar Latin vetrānus, from Latin veterānus, from vetus (“old”).

1252, José Ignacio Fernández de Viana & Mª Teresa González & Juan Carlos De Pablos (eds.), "El Tumbo de Caaveiro. 1ª Parte. | 2ª Parte", in Cátedra (Revista eumesa de estudios), 3, 4

And they inquired the truth among good men and elders

E enquereron a verdade en omes boos e vedraos


seimeira

From Paleo-Hispanic salime (compare Asturian Salime), from Proto-Indo-European *sel- (“to move quickly”), and the Romance suffix -eira.


toutelo

From Paleo-Hispanic, from Proto-Indo-European *tewtéh₂ (“people, nation; heap?”), from Proto-Indo-European *tewh₂- (“to swell”).


touticeira

From toutizo (“head; clod”), from Paleo-Hispanic, from Proto-Indo-European *tewtéh₂ (“people, nation; heap?”), from Proto-Indo-European *tewh₂- (“to swell”).


lameiro

1472, José Ignacio Fernández de Viana y Vieites (ed.), Colección diplomática del monasterio de Santa María de Pantón, Lugo: Diputación, page 246

another terrain that is by the bridge of [?], next to a meadow of Pero Calvo

outro tarreo que jaσ a Ponte da Sããaos Pasantas cabo hun lameyro de Pero Calvo


fachenda

From Spanish fachenda, from Italian faccenda (“business”). Doublet of facenda.


aloumiño

aloumiños (plural)
alouminho (alternative)

From Late Latin laudemia (compare Middle Portuguese louvaminhar, Galician loar and Portuguese louvar, and Old French losenge).

1425, M. Mar Graña Cid (ed.), Las órdenes mendicantes en el obispado de Mondoñedo. El convento de san Martín de Villaoriente (1374-1500). Estudios Mindonienses, page 302

being not induced about this because of any fraud through flatery

non seendo sobre esto endusida por enganno negun de alouminno

O casarse quér cariño,
e se no-o hay sale mal,
que n-hai ningun animal
indómeto a-o aloumiño.

1812, Antonio Benito Fandiño, A Casamenteira:

Marrying wants love,
and if there's not it goes wry,
cause there's not animal
indomitable to affection


aloumiñeiro

aloumiñeiros (plural)
loumiñeiro (alternative)
alouminheiro (alternative)

Attested since circa 1300. From *loumiño, from Old Occitan lauza amia (“praise the girlfriend”), or rather from a Late Latin laudemia, and -eiro.

Cõta a estoria outrosy que seu yrmaom, el rrey dõ Fernando de Leom, seyu muy boo rrey, senõ por que tragia loomineyros

1295, Ramón Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F., page 701:

The story tells otherwise that his brother, king Don Fernando of León, was a very good king, if not because he brought flatterers with him


chorón

gl-noun

chorón m (plural choróns, feminine chorona, feminine plural choronas)

choróns (plural)
chorona (feminine)
choronas (feminine plural)

From chorar (“to cry”) + -ón. Cognate with Portuguese chorão, Spanish llorón.

crybaby, whiner; also figuratively, moaner

D’esta fontiña áa beira froleada
sentado áa sombra de un chorón estóu
doído o peito, á alma esconsolada
triste morrendo pouco a pouco vóu.

By the flowery side of this spring,
sitting in the shade of a weeping willow I am,
aching heart, disconsolate soul,
sad, little by little I die

Salix babylonica
Wikispecies:Salix babylonica

weeping willow (Salix babylonica, a species of willow with very pendulous twigs)


nifrón

nifrón m (plural nifróns, feminine nifrona, feminine plural nifronas)

nifróns (plural)
nifrona (feminine)
nifronas (feminine plural)

From nifrar (“to sniff; to whine”) + -ón.

crybaby, whiner
also figuratively, moaner


nifroso

nifroso m (plural nifrosos, feminine nifrosa, feminine plural nifrosas)

nifrosos (plural)
nifrosa (feminine)
nifrosas (feminine plural)

From nifrar (“to sniff; to whine”) + -oso.


biosbardo

biosbardos (plural)
birbardo (alternative)

Unknown. Ultimately perhaps from a substrate language, possibly linked to a lost thing of folklore.

Para os biosbardos,
Meu neno, mirás:
Traguerme vas cardos
S'atento n'andás

At the biosbardos,
My boy, you look:
You'll bring me thistles
if you don't pay attention

(usually in the plural) imaginary being or place


loitador

loitadores (plural)
aloitador (alternative)

From Old Galician-Portuguese luytador (attested circa 1300), from Latin luctator, "wrestler". By surface analysis, loita + -dor.
Cognate with Portuguese lutador and Spanish luchador.

a person who wrestles horses during the rapa das bestas


noca

nocas (plural)
nócara (alternative)
nócaro (alternative)
nocra (alternative)
nocro (alternative)
nouca (alternative)

Unknown. Perhaps from Arabic, but likely from a substrate language, as many fish and crustaceans names.

Cancer pagurus
Cancer pagurus#Translingual


noca

From Medieval Latin nucha, from Arabic نُخَاع (nuḵāʕ).


rueiro

group of houses belonging to a larger village or hamlet


quinteiro

quinteiros (plural)
quintairo (alternative)

From Old Galician-Portuguese *quintãeiro, from Medieval Latin quintanarius, from quintana.

o sesego das cassas et do quinteyro donde morou dona Marina

1299, M. Lucas Álvarez, P. Lucas Domínguez, editors, El monasterio de San Clodio do Ribeiro en la Edad Media: estudio y documentos, Sada: Edicións do Castro, page 432:

the plot of the houses and of the yard where Dona Mariña dwelt

patio or yard around a farmhouse with its dependencies


trapallo

trapallos (plural)
trapalho (alternative)


trapallada

trapalladas (plural)
trapalhada (alternative)

From trapallo (“rag”) + -ada, a collective suffix.


ourive

From Old Galician-Portuguese ourivez (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin aurificem, from aurum (“gold”) + -fex (“maker”). Cognate with Portuguese ourives.

auiinça ontre os vigarios e cabido dos canbeadores e os ouriuez

1289, A. López Ferreiro, editor, Fueros municipales de Santiago y de su tierra, Madrid: Ediciones Castilla, page 113:

agreement in between the vicars and chapter of the exchangers, and the goldsmiths

goldsmith (craftsman who makes things out of gold)


folía

From Old Galician-Portuguese folia, from Old French folie (“madness, folly”).

c1350, Kelvin M. Parker (ed.), Historia Troyana. Santiago: Instituto "Padre Sarmiento", page 112

And I tell you more, that I didn't want, not even for a thousand marks of gold, that these messengers of the Greek would had received any dishonour or wrong or injury, nor that there was committed such a folly; because it is not right nor reason

Et mays vos digo, que nõ queria por mjll marcos de ouro que estes mesageyros dos gregos rreçebesem desonrra nẽ mal nẽ dãno, nẽ que se y fezese tal folia; nẽ he rrazõ nẽ dereyto.


foliada

Mingotiña, si està alà
nà tua man ô Pandeiro,
fais de conta, que ô punteiro,
è ò fol da gaita està acà:
à foliada andarà,
mais con esa girigaita
non magines, que se engaita
ô mundo, que è gran fistol,
è vè, què te ris do fol
para donde ronca â Gaita.

1753, Diego Antonio Cernadas y Castro, Mingotiña, si está alá:

Mingotiña, if the tambourine
is there in your hand,
take into account that the chanter
and the bag of the bagpipe are here:
the parade will walk,
but with this racket
don't imagine that the world,
who is a great swindler, is tricked,
and see, you laugh at the bag
at the direction the bagpipe is roaring.

feast, party, merrymaking, parade, which includes dancing and traditional music


abrótega

[aˈβ̞ɾɔ.t̪e.ɣ̞ɐ]

[aˈβ̞ɾɔ.t̪e.ɣ̞ɐ]

[aˈβ̞ɾɔ.t̪e.ħɐ]

Alternative form of abrótea (“white asphodel (Asphodelus albus)”)


ruada

feast, party, merrymaking, carnival; usually nocturnal, and accompanied by music and dancing


noitiña

noitiñas (plural)
noitinha (alternative)

From noite + -iña ("little night"). Cognate with Portuguese noitinha.

Á noitiña saen os morcegos.


tardiña

tardiñas (plural)
tardinha (alternative)

Á tardiña refresca.

time in between late afternoon and the first hours of the evening


eido

13th century. Probably from Latin aditus (“entrance”), but compare Welsh eiddo (“property, belongings”).

aquele eydo en que ora uoſ morades

1288, Clarinda de Azevedo Maia (ed.), História do galego-português. Estado linguístico da Galiza e do Noroeste de Portugal do século XII ao século XVI (com referência á situação do galego moderno). Coimbra: I.N.I.C., page 195

1797, Manuel Pardo de Andrade, Máis garrida que a rosa no seu leito (in Ramón Mariño Paz, 2008, Papés d'emprenta condenada. A escrita galega entre 1797 e 1846, page 19-20)

The mistress of my loving breast was standing / by his father's home, in her work

Istaba a dona do meu amante peyto / Nó eydo di seu pay, no seu travallo

enno eydo de bragadela que esta ena dita filigresia tanbem casas et herdades segundo que esta enno chouso de bragadela çircundado

1399, Ermelindo Portela Silva, editor, La región del obispado de Tuy en los siglos XII a XV. Una sociedad en expansión y en la crisis, Santiago: Tip. El Eco Franciscano, page 457:

in the place of Bragadela, which is in the aforementioned parish; also houses and properties as they are enclosed by the fence of Bragadela

yards, gardens, terrains adjoining or inside the precinct of a house or group oh houses

(figurative, usually in the plural) homeland; place of origin


fervellasverzas

fervellasverzas m or f by sense (invariable)

From férvelle as verzas: "Boil-his/her-greens"; or férvenlle as verzas: "Their-greens-are-boiling".

(idiomatic, humorous) antsy, restless person


brañego

brañego m (plural brañegos, feminine brañega, feminine plural brañegas)

brañegos (plural)
brañega (feminine)
brañegas (feminine plural)
branhego (alternative)

a person from the lowlands known as A Terrachá, Lugo, Galicia

a person from one of several places called Braña


alcouce

From a metathesis of Arabic اَلسُّوق (as-sūq, “the market, the souq”). Doublet of azougue.

der

small sheltered square in a hamlet or village


asadura

From Old Galician-Portuguese assadura (“roast meat”): asar (“to roast”) + -dura.

inh

roast, especially when prepared with some minor, but tasty, cuts

Se sigo a correr vou bota-las asaduras!

If I keep on running I'm gonna throw out my guts!


galeguiño

gl-noun

galeguiño m (plural galeguiños, feminine galeguiña, feminine plural galeguiñas)

galeguiños (plural)
galeguiña (feminine)
galeguiñas (feminine plural)


galeguiña

galeguiña f (plural galeguiñas, masculine galeguiño, masculine plural galeguiños)

galeguiñas (plural)
galeguiño (masculine)
galeguiños (masculine plural)


teiga

From Old Galician-Portuguese teeyga, from Andalusian Arabic تَعْلِيقَة (taʕlíqa, “hanging thing”). Doublet of taleiga and of tega; cognate with Spanish talega.

der

(historical units of measure) a unit of dry measure, especially for grain (¹⁄₁₆ moio)


taleiga

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese taleiga, from Andalusian Arabic تَعْلِيقَة (taʕlíqa, “hanging thing”). Doublet of teiga and of tega; cognate with Spanish talega.


arnela

From local Medieval Latin arenella (“little sand”), from arena (“sand”).


lercha

twig or stalk used as a spit for smoking or drying fish


abellariza

abellarizas (plural)
abelhariça (alternative)

stone wall enclosing an apiary and protecting it from bears and other predators


zarzallo

Attested as a nickname (Sarzalius, Sarçallo) in the 13th century.


babuxa

babuxas (plural)
babucha (alternative)
babuja (alternative)


caivanca

caivancas (plural)
cavanca (alternative)
cavianca (alternative)
queivanca (alternative)

From older cavianca, attested in local Latin documents since 940 CE, perhaps from Latin cavea (“hollow, cavity”) and a substrate prefix -anca.


murmurador

gl-noun

murmurador m (plural murmuradores, feminine murmuradora, feminine plural murmuradoras)

murmuradores (plural)
murmuradora (feminine)
murmuradoras (feminine plural)
marmurador (alternative)

From murmurar (“to murmur, gossip”) + dor.


faldriqueira

faldriqueiras (plural)
faldricheira (alternative)
faldrigueira (alternative)
faltriqueira (alternative)

Probably from falda (“fold”). Compare also baldric.
Cognate with Spanish faltriquera.

bag, pouch; kind of traditional bum bag that was used mostly by women

Si temos paz os cartiños roxirán nas faltriqueiras, pro si hai vingas e senreiras o daño será maior

1858, Vicente Turnes, Himno a S. M. Isabel II:

If we have peace coins will jingle inside the pouches, but if there are vengeances and hatreds, the damage will be larger

Asín as cousas o tempo fuxía coma un lóstrego e o bon de Bertoliño ó cabo dalgúns anos, cando xa se atopou coa faltriqueira acugulada de douradas e lucias moedas.

1898, Juan Pla Zubiri, O que garga sempre ten:

That's the way things are: time was fleeing as a lightning and good Little Bertold, after some years, found himself with the moneybag overflowing with golden and brilliant coins.


entena

Attested since 1707. Unknown origin; perhaps from a substrate *antenna. Alternatively from Latin antenna (“pole”), because of the poles that were inserted across the beehives as supporters of the honeycombs.

e de mel vnha caldeyra, que os meus cobos e cortizos teñen moy boas entenas

and a cauldron of honey, because my beehives have very good honeycombs


entena

Attested since 1370. Inherited from Latin antemna (“pole”).

Os mastos et os lostres et as entenas et as uelas, que erã muy preçadas et de muytas collores, todas forõ rronpudas

1370, Ramón Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 689:

The masts and the sprits and the yards and the sails, which were very precious and of many colours, were all broken


roxón

roxóns (plural)
rexón (alternative)
rinchón (alternative)
rixón (alternative)

18th century. Perhaps from Latin rōsiō, form rodō (“I gnaw”); alternatively from rixar, roxar (“to deep fry”), itself of unclear origin. Cognate with Portuguese rojão, rojões.


orela

orelas (plural)
aurela (alternative)
ourela (alternative)

First attested in the 13th century. From Latin ōra (“border”) + the diminutive suffix -ela.

1307, M. Lucas Álvarez & P. Lucas Domínguez (eds.), El monasterio de San Clodio do Ribeiro en la Edad Media: estudio y documentos. Sada/A Coruña: Edicións do Castro, page 440

a silver chalice of a mark and a half, which should be carved and gilded on its rims

hun calez de prata d'un marco et meo, que seia laurado et dourado arredor nas orelas

ourela do rrio

1295, Ramón Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F., page 791:

(archaeology) popular denomination of the risen perimeter of the local Iron Age hill-forts


ariño

14th century. Perhaps from area (“sand”) + -iño, diminutive.

vos que ayades esa renda da dizima dos savees e do pescado que y sayr en vossa vida e despos vosa morte que fique a nos o dito arynno

1319, Ermelindo Portela Silva, editor, La región del obispado de Tuy en los siglos XII a XV. Una sociedad en expansión y en la crisis, Santiago: Tip. El Eco Franciscano, page 393:

you should have this rent of a tenth of the shads and of the fish that is captured there, in your life, and after your death this sandbank should return to us

sandy island or sandbank in the lower course of the Minho river


escambrón

Prunus spinosa
Prunus spinosa#Translingual

Lycium intricatum
Wikispecies:Lycium intricatum


estripeiro

From Latin stirps (“rootstock”) + -eiro, suffix which forms the name of many trees. Cognate with Portuguese estrepeiro.

may; hawthorn (shrub of the genus Crataegus used for grafting)


esterpe

esterpes (plural)
escherpa (alternative)

From Latin stirps (“rootstock”). Doublet of estirpe.


carto

From Old Galician-Portuguese quarto (“quarter”). Doublet of cuarto.

inh

non pode querer ó noso Rey que lle paguemos un carto polo neto do viño, que non podemos vender á ochavo. Os probes non comemos mais ca un pouco de pan, ou bróa ruin, e unhas berzas sin adubo. Si nos quita a pinga do viño, ¿que forza emos ter para traballar as terras?

1805, anonymous, Representación dos veciños da Pontedeva (in Ramón Mariño Paz, 2008, Papés d'emprenta condenada. A escrita galega entre 1797 e 1846, page 21-23)

our King can't pretend that we pay a quarter by each pint of wine [we consume], when we can't even sell it for half a quarter. We the poor people eat but a little of bread, or bad black bread, and some greens without seasoning. If He takes this little wine, what strength we'll have left for working the lands?

Non teño cartos.

(colloquial, by extension, in the plural) money


trémbora

Inherited from Latin tremula (“quivering”). Doublet of tremo and trémulo. Compare Spanish tiemblo (“tremor”).

inh+

quaking bog (place with a wet spongy ground, sometimes too soft for walking)


trabalinguas

From trabar (“to bite”) + lingua (“tongue”). Compare Portuguese trava-língua and Spanish trabalenguas.

Un trabalinguas galego: “Se vou a Bueu nun bou, vou. Se non vou nun bou, non vou.” [sɪˈβowɐβuˈewnumˈbowˈβow sɪnʊmˈbownum'bownʊm'bow]

A Galician tongue-twister: “If I'll go to Bueu in a bou (ship), I'll go; but if I won't go in a bou, I won't go.”

tongue-twister (a phrase that is deliberately designed to be difficult to say correctly, usually because of varying combinations of similar phonemes)


trepia

First attested in 1402. From earlier trepea, from Vulgar Latin *tri-pedia, from Latin tripēs.

It. hua taboa et hua trepea grande

1402, A. López Ferreiro, editor, Galicia Historica, I, 5, page 343:


cánabo

15th century. From Late Latin cannabum, from Latin cannabis, from Ancient Greek κάνναβις (kánnabis). Doublet of cánnabis.

Cannabis sativa
Cannabis sativa#Translingual

vn rescripto de noso sennor o papa escripto en purgameo sellado con seu sello de plomo et fio de canabo

1407, E. Cal Pardo, editor, Colección diplomática medieval do arquivo da catedral de Mondoñedo, Santiago: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 230:

a charter of our lord the Pope, written in a parchments and sealed with his seal of lead and hemp thread.

con estes aparellos seguintes, conven a saber: tres ancoras et hũu arpeo de ferro con seus eixos et hũa gindaresa de fio de canavo

1433, Ángel Rodríguez González & José Armas Castro (eds.), Minutario notarial de Pontevedra (1433-1435). Santiago de Compostela: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 53

with the following gear, that is: three anchors and one grappling hook of iron, with their windlasses, and a hawser made of hemp thread


costrán

Obscure. Perhaps a derivative of Latin cōnstringō (“I bind”) or costa (“rib”); less likely, from Proto-Celtic *koslos (“hazel”).

unk

Obscure

twisted twig (usually oak or wicker) used for binding bundles


costro

costros (plural)
costre (alternative)
cuestro (alternative)
quiostro (alternative)

From *coostro, from Latin colostrum. Cognate with Portuguese crosto and Spanish calostro.


tasco

Probably from Celtic: compare Galatian τασκός (taskós, “peg, stake”), from Proto-Celtic *taskos (“peg, stake, club”).


colleita

13th century. From Latin collecta. Cognate with Portuguese colheita, Asturian collecha, Spanish cosecha, Catalan collita, French cueillette. Cf. the borrowed doublet colecta.


carapucho

carapuchos (plural)
caparucho (alternative)
caperucho (alternative)
carrapucho (alternative)


arrocho

Perhaps from garrocha. Compare French garrocher and garrot.

garrot; a stick or piece of wood at the extreme of a rope used for securing a load


arrocheiro

15th century. From arrocho (“garrot”) + -eiro, from *garrocheiro.

a Lourenço, arrocheiro, de hũa carga de pescado que levou en semana mayor a Santiago ao arçebispo XV maravedis, e a Juan Afonso, arrocheiro, outros XV maravedis de hua carga de pixotas, que levou a Santiago ao dito señor

1437, Ángel Rodríguez González (ed.), Livro do Concello de Pontevedra (1431-1463). Pontevedra: Museo de Pontevedra, page 91

To Lourenzo, muleteer, for a load of fish he drove the main week into Santiago, to the archbishop, for 15 maravedis; and to Juan Afonso, muleteer, another 15 maravedis for a load of hakes he took to Santiago to the aforementioned lord

(historical) muleteer (a professional who was hired for transporting goods using pack animals or carts)


molete

Attested since 1707. From Old French pain mollet (“soft bread”).

Christobo:
Eu cortarey o molete.
Cathalina:
Tomà vos essa rigeyfa,
porque tamen e pantrigo.

1707, Salvador Francisco Roel, Entremés ao real e feliz parto da nosa raíña:

Christobo:
"I'll cut the muffin"
Cathalina:
"Take that loaf,
because it is also wheat bread"


ferrón

ferróns (plural)
ferrom (alternative)
ferrão (alternative)
forrón (alternative)

From ferro (“iron”). Cognate with Portuguese ferrão.


ferrollo

13th century. From an original Old Galician-Portuguese verrolho (under the influence of ferro (“iron”)), from Vulgar Latin *verruculum, from Latin vericulum, diminutive of verū (“dart”). Compare the development of Portuguese ferrolho. Cf. also that of Spanish cerrojo.

Et tã rrigeos entrarom pela porta da villa que quebrou a perna al rrey de Portugal, ẽno ferrollo da porta da vila

1295, Ramón Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F., page 720:

And they entered by the town's door which such vehemence that the king of Portugal broke a leg in the bolt of the door

des moravedis por hũa fechadura et hũu ferrollo

1418, Ángel Rodríguez González (ed.), Libro do Concello de Santiago (1416-1422). Santiago de Compostela: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 117


refugallo

refugallos (plural)
refugalho (alternative)

From refugo (“refuse, discard”) + -allo.

discard, refuse; product of lesser quality which is destined to other secondary uses


alugueiro

13th century. From alugar (“to rent”) + -eiro.

VII. soldos. e entre o que el despendeo eo alugueyro da pinaza eo [car]reiamento dos barríj́s

1242, A. Martínez Salazar, editor, Documentos gallegos de los siglos XIII al XVI, A Coruña: Casa de la Misericordia, page 10:

7 solidi, what was spent in the rent of the pinnace and the loading of the barrels


alugueiro

gl-noun

alugueiro m (plural alugueiros, feminine alugueira, feminine plural alugueiras)

alugueiros (plural)
alugueira (feminine)
alugueiras (feminine plural)


españolización

españolización f (plural españolizacións)

españolizacións (plural)
espanholização (alternative)
espanholizaçom (alternative)


mexarela

mexarelas (plural)
mexerela (alternative)


estripacontos

interrupter; a person who would interfere in the narration of a story, sometimes spoiling the end


mexamorno

(humorous) affected, artificial person; meek person


longaínza

longaínzas (plural)
longainça (alternative)
lengüiza (alternative)
longüiza (alternative)
longaíza (alternative)
longaniza (alternative)

From Old Galician-Portuguese *longueĩça, from Late Latin lucanicia, from Latin lūcānica, from Lucania where it was first made. Cognate with Portuguese linguiça, Spanish longaniza, Basque lukainka and English lucanica.

rustic pork sausage whose preparation varies locally


carracha

carrachas (plural)
carracho (alternative)
carraza (alternative)
garracha (alternative)

Unknown. Probably from Paleo-Hispanic. Related to Portuguese carrapato and Spanish garrapata.


carracho

Unknown. Probably from a substrate language. Related to Portuguese carrapato and Spanish garrapata.


denociña

denociñas (plural)
delonciña (alternative)
denunciña (alternative)

From Old Galician-Portuguese donezỹa (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria, where it is presented as a characteristically Galician word), from Vulgar Latin *domnicella (“weasel”), reanalyzed as *donic- + -ella, and them suffixed with -iña.


zarrapico

zarrapicos (plural)
zarapico (alternative)
zarrapito (alternative)

Unknown. From the medieval form çarrapito (13th century), perhaps a romance composite.

Numenius arquata
Numenius arquata#Translingual


vorco

From *vorcar (cf. envorcar), from Vulgar Latin *volvicō, volvicāre, from Latin volvō (“I roll”). Compare Spanish vuelco and Catalan bolcar.


envorco

envorcos (plural)
emborco (alternative)
envorque (alternative)


cavorco

Perhaps from Latin cavus or either from a substrate language, but ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱewh₁-. Cognate with Spanish cahuerco.


pinchagato

pinchagatos (plural)
pinchagatos (alternative)

From pinchar (“to cause to jump”) + gato (“cat”).


pinchacarneiro

gl-noun

pinchacarneiro m (plural pinchacarneiros)

pinchacarneiros (plural)
pinchacarneiros (alternative)

From pinchar (“to cause to jump”) + carneiro (“ram”).


sacaúntos

From sacar (“to extract”) + unto (“fat of the abdomen”). Compare Spanish sacamantecas.

(folklore) bogeyman (an evil being used to scare children)


ozca

ozcas (plural)
ozco (alternative)
osca (alternative)
oscra (alternative)
osquia (alternative)

From Gaulish *osca (“notch”), from Proto-Celtic.


croio

From Paleo-Hispanic, from Proto-Celtic *krowdi- (“crude, rude, raw > hard, severe”); compare Irish crua. From Proto-Indo-European *krewh₂-.

der

Viches o seu novo mozo? É un croio!

Have you seen her new boyfriend? He's very ugly!


croio

croios (plural)
coio (alternative Eastern Galicia)


croia

(botany) stone (the central part of some fruits, consisting of the seed and a hard endocarp layer; most notably, those of cherries)


camariña

From cámara (“chamber”) + -iña (“little”), literally “little chamber”; the plant, perhaps else from Paleo-Hispanic *kat-marina (“maritime”) (vel sim).


camariña

Spanish: camariña

Corema album (a heath endemic of the Atlantic regions of the Iberian peninsula and southern France)


coído

Probably from coio (“pebble”) and a descendant of the Latin suffix -ētum (“place of”).


coio

From Paleo-Hispanic, perhaps from Proto-Celtic *krowdi- (“crude, rude, raw > hard, severe”); compare Irish crua. From Proto-Indo-European *krewh₂-. Alternatively, from the same origin of con, via a medieval form *cõo.


tolosano

gl-noun

tolosano m (plural tolosanos, feminine tolosana, feminine plural tolosanas)

tolosanos (plural)
tolosana (feminine)
tolosanas (feminine plural)

Latin Tolōsānus, from Tolōsa (“Toulouse”). Equivalent to Tolosa + -ano (“-an”).

native or inhabitant of Toulouse (usually male)


humidificación

humidificación f (plural humidificacións)


lunación

lunacións (plural)
lunaçom (alternative)
lunação (alternative)


chorida

/t͡ʃoˈɾiða̝/


estameña

Attested since circa 1300. From Latin stamineus.

dona Sol uestida d'estamena, et todas suas donzelas esso meesmo; ca coydauã que aujã a fazer doo

c. 1295, R. Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F, page 665:

Lady Sol was wearing stamin, and so were wearing her maids; because they thought that they were going to grieve


conacha

conachas (plural)
conecha (alternative)
necha (alternative)


alcatrán

alcatráns (plural)
alcatram (alternative)
alcatrão (alternative)

[ɑɫ.kɑˈt̪ɾɑŋ]


lareto

lareto m (plural laretos, feminine lareta, feminine plural laretas)

laretos (plural)
lareta (feminine)
laretas (feminine plural)
lareta (alternative)
laretas (alternative)


caneiro

14th century. Cana (“cane, reed”) + -eiro.

os ditos juises e rejedores et procurador do dito conçello ordenaron e mandaron que persona nenhua non fesese caneyros des onde se junta ágoa da Baruaña ao muyño, fasta en todo o rio da Barbaña, so pena de los derribaran e os desfaseren et pagaren por cada vez que os fisesen sesenta mrs de pena

1438, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 124:

the aforementioned judges and town councillors and the council's attorney decided and commanded that no person should build weirs from the place where the water of the river Barbaña hits the mill all along the Barbaña river, under the penalty of bringing them down, and destroying them, and paying a fine of sixty maravedis for each time

weir; dam on a river, for servicing a fishery or a mill


poial

14th century. From poio (“platform”) + -al.

Et as rruas erã moy grãdes, de hũa parte et da outra, et erã feytas per grande engeño, et erã de suso cubertas de bóueda, et juso erã estradas per poyaes de boa pedra laurada

1370, Ramón Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 231:

And the streets were wide, in one side and the other, and were made with great ingenuity, and they were vaulted in the ceiling, and down they were paved with blocks of good worked stone

stone platform designed to rest loads along a way


perpiaño

perpiaños (plural)
perpianho (alternative)
porpiaño (alternative)

From Old French (compare French parpaing), from Vulgar Latin *perpetaneus. Cognate with Portuguese perpianho.

(construction) perpent stone, through stone


fociño

fociños (plural)
fucín (alternative)
fuciño (alternative)
focinho (alternative)

Probably related to Spanish hocico (“snout”) and Asturian focicu (“snout”), ultimately from Latin fodere (“to dig”). Cognate with Portuguese focinho.


golfón

14th century. From Latin gomphus, from Ancient Greek γόμφος (gómphos, “peg, nail”). Doublet of gonzo.

der

Outrosy mandamos que o dicto martin bezerra et sua moller façan outra porta a a dicta casa noua en a outra quadra via de de çima en o chaao, et que non aia altura nehuna do terreo, et que seia ancha tanto por que posa entrar longura de hun tonel a traues, et de altura por que posa entrar un ome ençima de hun caualo, et que non seia ferrada de ferro, saluo palmelas et golfoos pertenesçentes.

1395, Miguel González Garcés, editor, Historia de La Coruña. Edad Media, A Coruña: Caixa Galicia, page 556:

Otherwise, we command that the aforementioned Martin Becerra and his wife should made another gate in this new house, in the other square, in the ground level, which should not have any elevation over the terrain; it should be wide enough to enter a barrel in long, and high enough for a mounted man, and it should have not iron reinforcements with the exception of the needed leaves and pins [of the hinges]


palmela

First attested in the 14th century. From palma (“palma”) + -ela.


canterla

Perhaps from Latin *canterŭla, from canthērius (“horse; rafter; prop, shore”).


angarela

From an earlier *angadela, a diminutive form of *angado (“bent; angled”), from anga (“hook”), from Proto-Germanic *angô (“hook, angle”).

windlass or crane which is used to hang and handle a pot or cauldron over the fire

crane used in a mill to handle the millstone


contía

13th century. From Old Galician-Portuguese quantia, from Latin quantus (“how much, how many”) probably influenced by contar (“to count”). Cognate with Spanish cuantía.


angueira

From Late Latin angaria (“corvee”), from Ancient Greek ἀγγαρία (angaría, “service”). Cognate with Greek αγγαρεία (angareía).


endeita

13th century. From Latin indicta (“proclaimed things”). Cognate with Spanish endecha (“elegy”) and Asturian andecha (“communal work”).

Et dardes endeyta de mallar et de segar en a grangia de Casar de Maria assy commo os outros nossos omees do couto de Mouriz

1300, M. Romaní Martínez (ed.), La colección diplomática de Santa María de Oseira (1025-1310). Santiago: Tórculo Edicións, page 1234

And you'll give corvee of threshing and harvesting in the farm of Casar de María, as our other men of the fiefdom of Mouriz do

Eis aquí a man dereita e digo que deixémo-la endeita.

1671, Gabriel Feixoo de Araúxo, Entremés famoso sobre da pesca do río Miño:

Here you have my right hand and, I say, let's we end this quarrel [chore]


estornillo

estornillos (plural)
estorniño (alternative)
tornillo (alternative)

13th century. From a diminutive (with -illo, from Latin -culus) of Latin sturnus (“starling”). Cognate with Portuguese estorninho and Spanish estornino.


cacharela

From cachada + -ela, from cachar (“burn and slash”).


centola

centolas (plural)
centolo (alternative)
santolo (alternative)

Probably from Celtic *kentu̯ollos, from Proto-Celtic *kentu- (“first”) + *ɸolno- (“great, vast”), so meaning "the main, large one" ~ "king crab", vel sim. Cognate with Portuguese santola and Spanish centolla.

(younger crabs)

European spider crab
European spider crab


trenla

trenlas (plural)
trena (alternative)
trenlla (alternative)

From Vulgar Latin *tragella or *tragenella, from trahō (“I bring”): compare tralla (“rope; whip”), from Latin trāgula. Compare also Portuguese trena and Spanish trena.

E logo ese caliveira de ese soldado que a rifa foi o que armou na taberna e na trenla estar debía agora

1858, Juan Manuel Pintos, Contos da aldea que parecen historias da vila e historias da vila que parecen contos da aldea, Vigo: El Album del Miño, page 224:

And then again, this party animal, this soldier who started the brawl at the tavern and who now should be in jail

(figurative, colloquial, slang) jail, prison


torgallo

torgallos (plural)
torgalho (alternative)

From Latin torquēre (“to twist”) + -allo.


pabío

From Old Galician-Portuguese pavio, from Vulgar Latin *papīlum, from Latin papȳrus. Doublet of papiro.


gabido

gabidos (plural)
gabedo (alternative)
gabado (alternative)
gábado (alternative)

18th century. From Latin gabata (“bowl, platter”). Doublet of gabeta.

any kind of domestic vessel used for keeping liquids


xógara

xógaras (plural)
jógara (alternative)
xoga (alternative)

Unknown. Either from Paleo-Hispanic or from xogo (“game; articulation”).


pontella

pontellas (plural)
pontelha (alternative)

From ponte, or possibly Latin pontic(u)la (“little bridge”).


montecelo

montecelos (plural)
monticelo (alternative)

From Old Galician-Portuguese montezelo, from Late Latin monticellus (“hill”), from Latin mōns.


castiro

From Old Galician-Portuguese *castĩeiro, from local Medieval Latin castanario, from castanea (“chestnut”). Doublet of castiñeiro. Cognate with Portuguese castanheiro.


bieito

gl-noun

bieito m (plural bieitos, feminine bieita, feminine plural bieitas)

bieitos (plural)
bieita (feminine)
bieitas (feminine plural)

From Old Galician-Portuguese bẽeyto, from Ecclesiastical Latin benedictus (“blessed”). Doublet of bendito.


bieiteira

Either from bieito (“blessed”) + -eira, or from bieiteiro (“elder tree”).

witch doctor; a woman who uses herbs, spells and blessings to cure


bieiteiro

bieiteiros (plural)
baiteiro (alternative)
binteiro (alternative)
biouteiro (alternative)

Either from bieito (“blessed”) + -eiro (forms tree names).


beizón

beizóns (plural)
beição (alternative)
beiçom (alternative)

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese bẽeyçõn, from Latin benedictiōnem (“blessing”). Cognate with Portuguese benção.

inh+

Eu vos boto mil beizós

1697, José Gil Taboada, (Please provide the book title or journal name):


sabuxo

sabuxos (plural)
sabujo (alternative)
sabuio (alternative)

14th century. From Late Latin segusius, having perhaps a toponymical origin. Cognate with Portuguese sabujo, Spanish sabueso, Italian segugio.

cõmo era moy ardido et vrgulloso et ualẽt, estaua en meo do cãpo cõmo porquo mõtés ontre os sabujos, et liuraua o cãpo en derredor de ssy

1370, Ramón Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 393:

As he was very bold, and haughty, and valiant, he was in the middle of the battlefield as a wild pig among the hounds, and he was cleaning the field around him

hound (dog breed with a good sense of smell developed for hunting)


alén

From Latin ad (“at”) + illinc (“there”). Cognate with Portuguese além.


tomiño

From Latin thymum + -iño, from Ancient Greek θύμον (thúmon).


tormentelo

tormentelos (plural)
tomentelo (alternative)
tromentelo (alternative)

From Latin tormentellus. Compare English tormentil.


serrapio

serrapios (plural)
sarrapio (alternative)

Unknown. Probably from a substrate language. Attested as sarrapio in local Medieval charters since the 10th century.


serrapio

From the same origin of Portuguese sarro (“tartar”).

an astringent or bitter aftertaste or mouthfeel left by some fruits of badly prepared or preserved aliments


furancho

Attested since circa 1539. From furo (“hole”), furar (“to pierce”), and either a pejorative suffix or ancho (“wide”).

a winery, run at a private residence by a producer, with license to sell wine and serve snacks and home-made cold meals

(dated, derogatory) little and dirty tavern


cuada

spank or pratfall; a blow received or delivered with the buttocks


cucho

gl-noun

cucho m (plural cuchos, feminine cucha, feminine plural cuchas)

cuchos (plural)
cucha (feminine)
cuchas (feminine plural)
cuxo (alternative)


becho

From Old Galician-Portuguese bescha (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin bēstia or Vulgar Latin bestula. Compare Italian biscia.


automóbil

automóbiles (plural)
automóvel (alternative)


peteiro

19th century.
Onomatopoeic: from *pett- + -eiro.


piteira

From pito (“chick”), pita (“chicken, hen”) + -eira.

wickerwork basket or cage used for raising chicken

a bait for catching cuttlefish or squids

Agave americana
Agave americana#Translingual


piteiro

13th century. From pita (“hen”) + -eiro.


superpetroleiro

superpetroleiro m (plural superpetroleiros)


espadela

scutch, scutching knife (wooden tool, usually in the form of a knife, used for working the flax)


liño

From Old Galician-Portuguese lỹo, from Latin līnum, from Proto-Indo-European *līno-. Cognate with Portuguese linho and Spanish lino.


afreitas

18th century. From a- + a derivative of Latin fractas (“broken”).

18th century, J. Cornide, Catálogo de palabras gallegas

"afreitas" are the oats that are half ground for cooking porridge or soup

"Afreitas" son las avenas medio molidas para hacer puches o sopa


restrelo

restrelos (plural)
restelo (alternative)

Attested since 1459. From Latin rāstellus (“rake”). Cognate with Portuguese restelo and Spanish rastrillo.

1459, A. López Carreira, Fragmentos de notarios, doc. D40a

A sack full of wheat floor, three sieves, a hackle, two goatskins

Hun saco cheo de farina triiga, tres peneyras, hun restrello, dous odres


noiro

drop-off in between fields, or over a sunken lane


excrescência

reintegrationist spelling of excrecencia


valigoto

valigotos (plural)
valigato (alternative)
valagota (alternative)
valagoto (alternative)
valigota (alternative)
valigote (alternative)

An obscure derivative or compound, from val (“valley”).


labazada

labazadas (plural)
lafazada (alternative)

Attested since 1807. Perhaps a derivative from Latin alapa. Compare Italian lampazza (“slap”).

mira que foi lavasada / que p[o]r forza ha de doerlle

1807, anonymous author, Primeiro diálogo dos esterqueiros:

look, that was a smack / that inevitably ought to hurt him


abeiro

Attested since the 19th century. Back-formation from abeirar

extreme of a cultivated field which is left fallow


robaliza

robalizas (plural)
rabaliza (alternative)
rebaliza (alternative)

Attested in 1417 (robaliça). From robalo + -iza.

Iten a libra dos corvelos et mugees et robalos et robaliças et reos et vesugos et douradas … a quatro dineiros cada libra

1417, Ángel Rodríguez González (ed.), Libro do Concello de Santiago (1416-1422). Santiago de Compostela: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 75

Item, the pound of young pollacks and of mullets and of large seabasses and of seabasses and of sea trouts and of seabreams and of gilt-head breams …, four diñeiros each pound

(larger specimens)

Dicentrarchus labrax
Dicentrarchus labrax#Translingual


cogomelo

cogomelos (plural)
cogumelo (alternative)

→ Spanish: gurumelo

From Latin cucumellum, diminutive of cucuma (“kettle, cauldron”).

dregs formed while the wine turns into vinegar


galafre

galafre m or f by sense (plural galafres)

Attested circa 1152 as a nickname ("dictus Galafri"). Probably from Old French, from Latin gula (“gluttony”): cognate with French gouillafre and Catalan golafre.


lumbrigante

lumbrigantes (plural)
lobrigante (alternative)
lombrigante (alternative)
lubigante (alternative)
lubrigante (alternative)

From Old Galician-Portuguese lobaganto (13th century), perhaps from Late Latin lucuparta. Cognate with Portuguese lavagante, Spanish bogavante and Asturian llocántaru.

Homarus gammarus
Homarus gammarus#Translingual


podengo

Unknown: from Old Galician-Portuguese podengo (13th century; 11th century in Latin texts), either from Paleo-Hispanic, or rather from Suevic or Gothic. Cognate with Portuguese podengo and Spanish podenco.

Ca hũu arçipreste do castelo, ome mao et auol, foy aa caça et, el andando per aquel monte, caerõlle os podengos no rastro do conde et da jnfãte

c. 1295, R. Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F, page 134:

Because an archpriest of the castle, a mean and vile man, went hunting and, while wandering about that hill, his hounds found the trail of the count and the Princess

hound with stiff ears, historically used for rabbit hunting


choupelo

A derivative in -elo from *choupo, related to choupana, ultimately probably from Proto-Germanic *skup- and hence cognate with English shop.

shack or hovel for sheltering animals, in the hills

Umbilicus rupestris
Umbilicus rupestris#Translingual


antepeito

From ante (“berfore”) + peito (“chest”).


palleta

From palla + -eta or rather from French paillette. Cognate with Portuguese palheta.


naseiro

naseiro m (plural naseiros, feminine naseira, feminine plural naseiras)

naseiros (plural)
naseira (feminine)
naseiras (feminine plural)

fisherman or ship which uses fish traps as their main fishing technique

place in a river suitable for the placement of fish traps


morosidade

defaulting, delinquency (a debt that is overdue for payment)


voiturón

voituróns (plural)
viturón (alternative)
voitiró (alternative)
voitirón (alternative)

a double pouched net used for fishing in rivers


voitirón

voitiróns (plural)
viturón (alternative)
voitiró (alternative)
voiturón (alternative)

From Latin *vulturione, from Latin vulturius.

fyke; a double pouched net used for fishing in rivers


viturón

vituróns (plural)
voitiró (alternative)
voitirón (alternative)
voiturón (alternative)

(fishing) fyke; a double pouched net used for fishing in rivers


combarro

Attested as conbarro in local Medieval Latin documents; from Gallaecian *combarro-, from Proto-Celtic *kom- (“with”) and either a term related to *bereti (“to bring”) or *barro- (“tip, top”).


bocoi

19th century. From French boucaut (“wineskin”), from French bouc (“buck”).


barbas de raposo

Att. 18th century. Literally, “Fox beards”.

Cuscuta epithymum
Cuscuta epithymum#Translingual

(Botanics) dodder, hellweed (Cuscuta epithymum)


mazaroca

Attested 1519. The related term maçorgar circa 1300.
Unknown origin. From older maçaroca, and cognate with Portuguese maçaroca and Spanish mazorca.

debo á muller de Vasco de Fonteelo una meada de liño e á Tereixa Gata quatro maçarocas destopa e a María d'Eygreja tres maçarocas

1519, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros, Vigo: Galaxia, page 222:

I owe a skein of flax to Vasco de Fontelo's wife, and to Tereixa Gata four spindlefuls of tow and to María da Eigrexa three spindlefuls

Fiaba a seña Marica unha boa mazaroca de liño: mollaba nos lábeos os dous pormeiros dedos da man esquerda e tirando cara abaixo faguía un fío daquel manoxo de estrigas, mentras que ca dereita enredábaio no fuso, que bailaba de demoro.

1911, Francisco Portela Pérez, O pé da lareira:

lady Mary was spinning a large spindleful of flax: she moistened the fist two finger of her left hand on her lips and, pulling down, she was making a thread of that handful of stricks, while with her right hand she was winding it in the spindle, which danced slowly


fiandón

From fiar (“to spin”); cognate with Asturian filandón.

(historical) evening meeting for spinning and socializing


uzal

Et aynda vos damos o huzal que iat alende do castineiro dos enforcados em que façades cortina

1383, M. Romaní Martínez (ed.), La colección diplomática de Santa María de Oseira (1025-1310). Santiago: Tórculo Edicións, IV, page 388

and we also give to you the heathland that is beyond the chestnut tree of the hanged ones to turn it into farmland


meogo

From Old Galician-Portuguese meogo, from the Latin expression medius locus; compare French milieu.

Ante o altar estã depunduradas tres laãpaas grãdes a onrra de Ihesucristo et de Santiago, aquela que esta ẽno meogo he moy grãde et moy bẽ laurada

1390, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Os Miragres de Santiago. Versión gallega del Códice latino del siglo XII atribuido al papa Calisto I, Madrid: C.S.I.C., page 167:

Before the altar three large lamps hang in honor of Jesus Christ and Saint James; the one in the middle is very large and very well carved


lucenza

lucenzas (plural)
lucencia (alternative)


acio

Attested since circa 1539 (azio). Inherited from Latin acinus (“grape”). Cognate with Middle Portuguese azeo and Old French aisne.


acio

mark or stake which marks temporarily the limits between properties


cortiña

cortiñas (plural)
cortía (alternative)
curtiña (alternative)

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese cortinha, from Late Latin cōrtīna (“bit of enclosed land”). First attested in the thirteenth century; also found in local Latin documents from the 9th–10th centuries onward.


bídalo

bídalos (plural)
bídaro (alternative)
bídolo (alternative)
bidro (alternative)

Probably from bídaro, from Paleo-Hispanic, ultimately from Proto-Celtic *betu- (“birch”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷet- (“resin, pitch”). The tonic i can be due to the influence of Germanic forms (cf. English birch) during the early Middle Ages.
Cognate with French bouleau. Compare also the Galician Celtism berro < *berŭro-, French berle < *berŭla. Synonymous with bido, bedulo, and bidueiro.


bousán

gl-noun

bousán m (plural bousáns, feminine bousana, feminine plural bousanas)

bousáns (plural)
bousana (feminine)
bousanas (feminine plural)

Unknown. Either from Proto-Germanic *bausuz (“bad, arrogant; worthless”) or from an expressive origin, and the suffix, of Germanic origin, -án.

der

Este can é un bousán: non me sabe levar as vacas.

This dog is a dimwitt: he don't even know how to guide the cows.


froita seca

dar cada ano I quarteiro de froyta seca, meas castanas et meas nozes

1270, M. Romaní Martinez, editor, La colección diplomática de Santa María de Oseira (1025-1310):

to give each year a quarter of nuts, half of it of chestnuts and half of it of walnuts


curota

top of a conical structure, heap or mountain


nobelo

From Old Galician-Portuguese novelo, lovelo, from Late Latin lubellum < globellum, diminutive from Latin globus. Cognate with Portuguese novelo and Spanish ovillo.

Iten, preçaron novelos de laa para azarelas em çinquoenta e sey mrs.

1474, A. López Ferreiro, editor, Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática, Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 71:

Item, they apprised some balls of wool, for towels, in fifty and six maravedis


folerpa

folerpas (plural)
celepa (alternative)
falepa (alternative)
falopa (alternative)
felepa (alternative)
folepa (alternative)
folerca (alternative)
zalopa (alternative)

Perhaps from *fallupa, a derivative of Late Latin faluppa (“chaff”).


bedulo

bedulos (plural)
bedul (alternative)
bidul (alternative)

From Paleo-Hispanic *betūllo, ultimately from Proto-Celtic *betu- (“birch”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷet- (“resin, pitch”).
Compare bido, bidueiro, and bídalo.


bedugo

From *beduo, with an epenthetical consonant caused by the hiatus, from *bedulo, from Paleo-Hispanic *betūlo, ultimately from Proto-Celtic *betu- (“birch”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷet- (“resin, pitch”).


aveso

From Old Galician-Portuguese avesso, from Latin āversus (“contrary”). Cognate with Portuguese avesso and Spanish avieso.

depoys começou a fazer o avesso delo

c. 1295, R. Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F, page 166:

later she began doing the opposite of this


espulla

espullas (plural)
espunlla (alternative)
espuña (alternative)
espulha (alternative)

From Old Galician-Portuguese espunlha (13th century), from Latin spongia (“sponge”). Compare also enxunlla, ensulla from Latin axungia. Cognate with Spanish espundia.

growth in the belly or the udders of the cow


anciño

From Latin uncinus (“hook”). Cognate with Portuguese ancinho.


guedella

guedellas (plural)
gadella (alternative)

Attested since the 13th century. Probably from Latin viticula, diminutive of vītis (“vine”), under the influence of a descendant of Proto-Germanic *wiþiz (“cord, rope, thong”). Cognate with Portuguese guedelha and Spanish guedeja.

cõ duzentos caualeyros negros com̃o ela et todos trosquiados, senõ senllas guedellas que tragiã ençima das cabeças

1295, R. Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F., page 660:

with two hundred knights, black as herself, all of them shaved except for a pair of locks that they brought in the top of their heads


chaíñas

2020, Malandrómeda, Galician Edi Murfi [song]

I'm but a poor man: a prick, a blabbermouth

Sonche un pobre home: un cheíñas, un lareta

É un chaíñas que pensa que xoga ben.

He's a braggart/prick who thinks he plays good.


présa

From Old Galician-Portuguese pressa, from Latin pressus. Cognate with Portuguese pressa and Spanish prisa.

Voume alá, que teño présa.


ledicia

From Old Galician-Portuguese lediça, from Latin laetitia. Cognate with Portuguese lediça and French liesse.


fogaxe

fogaxes (plural)
fogagem (alternative)
fogage (alternative)


cregaxe

cregaxes (plural)
cregagem (alternative)
cregage (alternative)

From crego (“clergyman”) + -axe (“-age”).


nebra

nebras (plural)
nebla (alternative)
néboa (alternative)

14th century. From Latin nebula (“fog”).

et que non posades alegar pedra nen nebra nen geada nen outra esterilidade alguna que posa aquaesçer.

1403, M. Mar Graña Cid, editor, Las órdenes mendicantes en el obispado de Mondoñedo. El convento de san Martín de Villaoriente (1374-1500), page 236:

and you shall not adduce hail nor fog nor frost nor any other sterility that could happen


néboa

néboas (plural)
nebla (alternative)
nebra (alternative)

From Old Galician-Portuguese nevoa, from Latin nebula (“fog”). Cognate with Portuguese névoa and Spanish niebla.


carazo

Unknown. Probably from a substrate language.


carambelo

carambelos (plural)
caramelo (alternative)

Probably from Latin calamellus, or either from a substrate language.


tourón

Perhaps from touro, because of its fierceness. Cognate with Portuguese toirão and Spanish turón.

Mustela putorius
Mustela putorius#Translingual

ferret; polecat (Mustela putorius, a mustelid of Eurasia)


careixa

careixas (plural)
areixa (alternative)
gareixa (alternative)
vareixa (alternative)

Attested since the 18th century. From a substrate Celtic language, from Proto-Celtic *carisia. Cognate with Portuguese careja and Spanish cresa.

(uncountable) fly maggots and eggs deposited in meat or food


areixa

areixas (plural)
careixa (alternative)
vareixa (alternative)


vareixa

vareixas (plural)
areixa (alternative)
careixa (alternative)

See careixa and compare Portuguese varejeira.


xebre

From Latin separ (“separate, different”).


xergón

From xerga (“blanket”) + -ón. Cognate with Spanish jergón.


carba

Unknown; from a substrate language, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kr̥-wós (compare Latin curvus, "bent"). Compare also Asturian carba (“brushwood”); garbu, gárabu (“small branch”), Basque garbasta, garbazta (“pole with branches”) and Sardinian carba, carva (“tree branch”).

Quercus petraea
Quercus petraea#Translingual


carballa

Item mays o pardinneiro que esta enna testeira da vinna onde esta a figueira bordiando et outro meo pardinneiro que esta na testeira [da] dita vinna con a carvalla que esta iunto con o dito meo pardinneiro. Iten mais outro pardinneiro enteiro que esta iusto con a dita carvalla acerca do eido que foy de L(ouren)so R(odrigu)es D'arentei

1447, M. del Carmen Sánchez Carrera, editor, El Bajo Miño en el siglo XV. El espacio y los hombres, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 327:

Item, the ruins that are in the extreme of the vineyard where there is a bordering fig tree, and another half of a ruined building that is at the extreme of the aforementioned vineyard with the oak that is next to it. Item, another ruins that lies by the aforementioned oak, next to the possessions that were of Lourenzo Rodríguez of Arentei.

large, old oak tree, frequently used as a landmark

Fucus serratus
Fucus serratus#Translingual


cocedura

batch (quantity of bread or other baked goods baked at one time)


veriño

From carballo veriño, from carballo (“oak”) and a derivative of Latin verus (“true”): "true oak".

vendo una mia leira que ayo in termio de Açoreiros, á qual chaman da Carualla Viriña

1259, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 19:

I sell a field of mine that I have in Azoreiros, which is named field of the Common Oak

Quercus robur
Quercus robur#Translingual


aciñeira

aciñeiras (plural)
azinheira (alternative)

From Old Galician-Portuguese azỹeira (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from a derivative in -eira from Latin īlicem.


gobernallo

From Latin gubernaculum. Cognate with French gouvernail.

Conta a estoria que Pirio Neutóllamos, desque escapou da gram tormenta do mar et perdeu moytas das suas cõpañas, cõmo de suso oýstes, (et) fezo adubar suas naues en hũ lugar que chamã Amolese, que muyto lles era mester, ca nõ lles auía ficado naue sãa: as hũas auíã quebrantadas as áncoras, et as outras as uellas et os gouernallos, et as outras os rremos, et as outras os bordos en derredor

1370, R. Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana. Introducción e texto, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 723:

The story tells that Pyrrhus Neoptolemus, because he has escaped the great storm of the sea and lost many of his troops, as you have already heard, ordered to repair his ships in a place called Amolese, because they really were in need of it, because they had not a single ship that were sound: ones had broken their anchors, others the sails and the helms, others the oars, and another ones the boards all around


melgacho

Scyliorhinus canicula
Scyliorhinus canicula#Translingual

morgay, small-spotted catshark (Scyliorhinus canicula)


patarroxa

Scyliorhinus stellaris
Scyliorhinus stellaris#Translingual


cazacú

small-spotted catshark (Scyliorhinus canicula)


canexa

Unknown. Perhaps from can (“dog”) + -exa.

Squalus acanthias
Squalus acanthias#Translingual


derrego

trench or strip of land which marks a limit or boundary


armentío

Attested since the 13th century. Derivative, suffixed in -ío, from a descendant of Latin armentum.

cen carros de pan entre trigo et centeo et vi armentios et iiii bois et ii uacas et La roxellos entre cabras et ouellas et oyto fanegas de ligoyma entre fuas et eruellas et ii ferrados de noses et vii anssaras et dos capoos et v galinas et ii porcas et iiii trens de nauios que tinna en pinor por vi centos mor. [..] disso que pinnorara Laviii armentios et deste gaando eran xxxiii armentios mayores et x tenrreyros et xv anellos et ficaban xxxxvii armentios

1291, E. Cal Pardo, editor, Colección diplomática medieval do arquivo da catedral de Mondoñedo. Transcrición íntegra dos documentos, Santiago: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 78:

a hundred carts of grain, wheat and rye; and 6 cattle, 4 oxen and 2 cows; and 50 kids, sheep and goats; and eight fanegas of legume, beans and peas; and two ferrados of nuts; and 7 geese, and two capons and 5 hens and 2 sows; and 4 sails of ships that he had pawned for 600 mor. … he said that he pawned 58 cattle and of these cattle there were 33 elder cattle and 10 calves and 15 calves with more than a year, and 47 cattle still remained


cafurna

Perhaps from Latin cava (“cave”) *furnea (“oven-like”). Cognate with Portuguese cafurna and Occitan cafourno. Compare also Latin caverna.


barcal

15th century. From barca (“boat”) + -al.

Iten, das cunqas e talladores e poças e barcaas e de outras quaes quer vaselas de madeira, que page o vendedor de cada tres mrs un diñeiro

1439, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 418:

Item, of the bowls, and plates, and large bowls, and trays, and any other wooden vessel, the seller should pay a denary per three mrs.

wooden vessel or tray used for serving food

wooden vessel used for temporarily holding liquids, namely wine

wooden vessel used for feeding the animals, preparing clay, or other uses

wooden tray with individual compartments for placing balls of yarn


bosníaco

gl-noun

bosníaco m (plural bosníacos, feminine bosníaca, feminine plural bosníacas)

bosníacos (plural)
bosníaca (feminine)
bosníacas (feminine plural)


acibecheiro

acibecheiros (plural)
azivecheiro (alternative)

/aθiβɛˈt͡ʃeiɾo̝/

15th century. From acibeche (“jet”) + -eiro.


cabanón

13th century. From cabana (“cabin”) + -ón. Cognate of French cabanon.


cabaneiro

(dated) a poor peasant, who lives in a hut (cabana)


cerviño

[ˈθɛɾ.β̞i.ɲʊ]

[ˈθɛɾ.β̞i.ɲʊ]

[ˈsɛɾ.β̞i.ɲʊ]


baluz

From a misunderstanding of an 18th-century author by a 19th-century lexicographer; later incorporated into several 19th- and 20th-century dictionaries, and subsequently acquiring some minor literary use.


meigallo

meigallos (plural)
meigalho (alternative)

Ora en ti penso disperto, / ora en ti penso durmindo, / e sempre en ti estou pensando / coma si foses feitiço; Seique meigallo me deche / na festa do San Martiño, / amasado cos teus dedos / nunha bola de pantrigo

1863, Rosalía de Castro, Cantares Gallegos:

I think about you while awake, I think about you while sleeping; I'm always thinking about you as if it was witchery; I think that you gave me an enchantment, in the fair of Saint Martin, kneaded with you hands inside a ball of wheat bread

(folklore) evil eye, witchery, spell, bane

Calquer pensara que un meigallo se lle meteu no corpo, ó ver como cambeou de súpeto. Esborrouse da súa boca a sonrisa pracenteira, fuxiu dos ollos o mirar churruscandeiro, velado agora por humedeceres de bágoas

1895, Heraclio Pérez Placer, Contos da Terriña:

Anyone would think that she was under a spell [that a meigallo entered her body] seeing how she changed overnight: the pleasant smile fade from her mouth and the burning looks fled from her eyes, clouded by the wetness of the tears

(folklore) sickness caused by witchery, the dead, demons or spirits


feitizo

Attested since circa 1350 (feytizeo). From Latin factīcius (“artificial”). Cognate with Portuguese feitiço, Asturian fechizu and Spanish hechizo.

c. 1350, Kelvin M. Parker (ed.), Historia Troyana. Santiago: Instituto "Padre Sarmiento", page 16

this king had a daughter named Medea, and this princess Medea was very knowledgeable in the art of magic and in every enchantment, and in charms of herbs and of other things

este rrey avia hũa filla a que chamauã Medea et esta Jnfanta Medea foy moy sabea en arte magica et de todos los encantamẽtos, et de feytizeos de ervas et de outras cousas

Meigas, feitizos e bruxas
que persigue a Inquisicion,
sin mascara, socaliñas
de cregos e frades son.
Chamanlles bruxas à ás vellas
por ter cara de carton;
pero solamente hay meygas
en donde hay Inquisicion.
As femias da nosa especie
de certa constitucion
fan visaxes, e son tolas,
pero feitizeiras non.

1813, Manuel Pardo de Andrade, Rogos dun escolar gallego:

Witches, spells and hexes,
who are prosecuted by the Inquisition,
maskless, hoaxes
of priests and friars are.
They call hex an old lady
because her face is made of cardboard;
but there are witches
just where it is Inquisition.
Females of our species,
of certain constitution,
make gestures, and are mad,
but sorceresses they are not.

Ora en ti penso disperto,
ora en ti penso durmindo,
e sempre en ti estou pensando
coma si foses feitiço

Now I think about you awake,
now I think about yow while asleep,
I'm always thinking about you
as if you were a spell

O feitizo está nos ollos
dua nena de Padron:
as nenas tamen feitizan
à os cregos da inquisicion.
Garridiñas, nos chegedes
a os que manexan tizós,
que a estopa cabe do fogo
e vos ua tentacion.

the charm is in the eyes
of a girl form Padrón:
the girls also charm
the priests of the Inquisition.
Beautiful ladies, don't come near
the ones who handle the brand,
because the tow by the fire
it's too much of a temptation.


feitío

First attested in the 14th century (the derivative feytiar in the 13th century). From feito (“done, made”) + -ío. Cognate with Portuguese feitio.

Cego. —Os tolos son dun feitío, desleigados e ruís.

1918, Leandro Carré Alvarellos, Tolerías:

Blindman. —Madmen are all of the same making, lawless and vile.

Et fijndos os ditos dez τ noue annos, as ditas caſas τ moradas deuẽ a ficar liures τ quitas ao moeſteyro d Armẽteyra cõ quanto feytio en ellas for feyto

1317, Clarinda de Azevedo Maia (ed.), História do galego-português. Estado linguístico da Galiza e do Noroeste de Portugal do século XII ao século XVI (com referência á situação do galego moderno). Coimbra: I.N.I.C., page 226

And after these nineteen years are over, the aforementioned houses and dwellings must be left free to the monastery of Armenteira, with every work done in them

por quanto vos o dito Duran Fernandes fostes e sodes procurador e administrador de dita hermida de Santa Maria do Camino e malataria e laserados dela e fezestes e fasedes em ela de cada dia moytas e boas obras e feitios segundo parece a vista de todos

1420, M. A. Comesaña Martinez (1995), O tombo do Hospital e Ermida de santa María do Camiño de Pontevedra. Pontevedra: Museo, page 57

because you, the aforementioned Durán Fernandez, were and are the procurer and administrator of the aforementioned hermit of Saint Mary of the Way, and of its lazaretto and its lepers, and you did a do in it many good deeds and feats, as everyone can see


pantrigo

Attested since the 15th century. From pan (“bread”) + trigo (“wheat”).

1434, Ángel Rodríguez González & José Armas Castro (eds.), Minutario notarial de Pontevedra, doc. 97

for each Christmas day of the birth of God, a pair of capons and an eight of wine from the Ulla region and three maravedis of baked wheat bread

por cada dia de Natal da naçença de Deus, hũu para de capõos et hũu açunbre de viño ullãao et tres mrs. de pan trigo cosido

Meu sobrino pouco biche no camiño que Aca muyto mais pasou esa jente Aca chegou e nonos deixaron biño Pan nen pasta que ata estar de choz non lle basta darlles da bianda boa mesturada con boroa so pantrigo non segasta. Ja A bezina non tengalo nen galiña; polo camiño e congostra fan mais mal que no a lagostra son como abes de Rapiña, Lagumeiros, lapuzes e lacoeiros que con Achaque da guerra quedou ynsinada A terra a consentir lacoeiros

1596, anonymous author, Diálogo de Alberte e Bieito:

My nephew, little did you see in the road, because here much more happened: that people here arrived and they didn't left us wine, bread or paste, that even [unknown] was not enough for them; giving them good viand admixed with black bread, so the wheat bread is not spent. Now the neighbour has no hen or rooster; in the road and the lane they do more harm than locusts; they are like birds of prey, loafers[?], guzzlers and greedyguts that with the excuse of the war the country was left taught to consent greedyguts

O pantrigo fíxoo Deus; a broa mandouna facer

God made wheat bread; black bread, that He commanded to do


deosto

From Old Galician-Portuguese deosto, from deostar (“to slander”). Cognate with Spanish denuesto.

por quanto diso que él non matara ao dito Gonçaluo Ferrandes, et que se o dito Gonçaluo Ferrandes fora morto, que o fora por sua culpa, como aquel que o cometera de feito e de dereito, primeiramente chamándolle vilaao, fodidincul, curnudo, priuado, perro treedor, dizéndolle outros deostos et injurias atroçes et queréndoo matar dentro en sua casa do dito Johán Ferrandes, deytándolles golpes primeiramente con hua espada nua et cortándolle a roupa que tiña vestida et cuberta con a dita sua espada, defendéndose él dél et dizéndolle que se fose en boa ora

1423, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 120:

because he said that he didn't kill Gonzalo Fernández, and that if this Gonzalo Fernández was dead, it was his own fault, as committed de facto and de jure, first calling him villain, assfucked, horned, private lover, traitor dog, and other affronts and terrible insults, and wanting to kill him inside the house of the aforementioned Xoán Fernández, hitting him first with drawn sword and cutting the clothes he was wearing, the latter defending himself and telling him to go away


píllara

píllaras (plural)
píldora (alternative)
pildra (alternative)
pílora (alternative)
pilro (alternative)
pírula (alternative)

Charadrius hiaticula
Charadrius hiaticula#Translingual

píllara real: ringed plover (Charadrius hiaticula)

Charadrius alexandrinus
Charadrius alexandrinus#Translingual

píllara papuda: Kentish plover (Charadrius alexandrinus)

píllara dourada
píllara dourada#Galician

Eurasian golden plover
Eurasian golden plover

Pluvialis apricaria
Pluvialis apricaria#Translingual

píllara dourada: Eurasian golden plover (Pluvialis apricaria)

píllara riscada
píllara riscada#Galician

Arenaria interpres
Arenaria interpres#Translingual

píllara riscada: ruddy turnstone (Arenaria interpres)

Desd'aquí vexo os mares Serenos, estenderse alá no ceo; Oio d'aquí os cantares Da píllara fugaz, do merlo feo

Tringa totanus
Tringa totanus#Translingual


bilurico

biluricos (plural)
bildurico (alternative)
birulico (alternative)
pildurico (alternative)


portelo

13th century. From porta (“gate”) + -elo (“little”). Cognate with Spanish portillo.

o conde Fernã Gonçaluez auya ia feyct[o], en pouca d'ora, muy gram portelo ẽna primeyra az dos mouros

c1295, Lorenzo, Ramón (ed. ) (1975): La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla. Edición crítica anotada, con introducción, índice onomástico y glosario de ---. Tomo I: Introducción, texto anotado e índice onomástico; Tomo II: Glosario. Ourense: I. E. O. P. F., page 108

the count Fernán González opened, in less than an hour, a large gate in the forefront of the Moors

En este dia e por estas testemoyas, se deu o pregón das bestas mullares e asnos, que os non deytasen enas viñas nen cortasen as çepas, su a pena ordenada por ho conçello etc, e que cada hun que tape os portellos etc, su a dita pena, cada un da sua viña

1432, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 93:

In this day and with these witnesses, it was proclaimed the announcements of the mules and asses, that they should not free them at the vineyards, nor cut down the grapevines under the penalty accorded by the council etcetera, and each one should close the gates etcetera, under the aforementioned penalty, each one of their vineyard

é ó mesmo que tornar os paxaros de un tarreo para que non coman ó grao, é deixar ó mesmo tempo portelos abertos para que ó coman os porcos

1812, Ramón González Serna, Carta Recomendada:

it is the same as driving away the birds from a terrain so that they don't eat the grain, and then leaving the gates open for the pigs to do it

gate (doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall)


miúl

miúis (plural)
meúl (alternative)
muíl (alternative)

Probably from a derivative of Latin medius.

central piece of the Galician cart wheel, which is united on its extremes with the cambas, or curved pieces of the wheel's felly, and has in its center the wheel's nave


cotón

cotóns (plural)
cotom (alternative)
cotão (alternative)

Ultimately from Arabic قُطْن (quṭn); see cotton for more. Doublet of algodón.


folión

folións (plural)
foliom (alternative)
folião (alternative)

From folía (“fest, merrymaking”) + -ón. Compare Portuguese folião.

night feast frequently accompanied with bonfires and fireworks


bulra

bulras (plural)
burla (alternative)
burra (alternative)

Unknown. From Old Galician-Portuguese burla (13th century, earliest attestation of this word); probably from Paleo-Hispanic. Cognate with Portuguese burla, Spanish burla, Catalan burla.

porque a memoria da Eglleia de Yria he Ja quasy perdida, porende eu, querendo a alguũ tanto tornar a memoria dos que nõ saben nẽ creen Ja que fose obispado -ante o han por bulrra-

1460, Rui Vasques, edited by J. A. Souto Cabo, Crónica de Santa María de Iria, page 93:

because the memory of the Church of Iria is almost lost, then I, wanting to bring back this remembrance to those than don't know and no longer believe that Iria was a bishopric -they even take this for a joke-

chegou a Panpelona et acaeçeu que lle morreu a moller y, et hũ ospede mao cõ que pousaua tomoulle quanto tragia por bulrra, et viose desanparado

1390, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Os Miragres de Santiago., Madrid: C.S.I.C., page 180:

he arrived to Pamplona, and it happened that his wife died there, and a mean guest with whom he was staying took everything he was carrying using a fraud, and he found himself helpless


valume

Perhaps from Catalan volum (“volume”), from Latin volumen.

dead brushwood used for littering, and later as a fertilizer


mulime

mulimes (plural)
molime (alternative)
molimo (alternative)

From mol (“soft”) + -ume. Compare mulir (“to litter < to soften”).

Teño as cortes sin molime,
E vou amañar o carro.

1845, Vicente Turnes, Diálogo entre Silvestre Cajaraville e Domingo Magariños:

I have no molime in the stables
and have to repair the cart

dead brushwood used first for litter, then as a fertilizer


abesouro

abesouros (plural)
abesoiro (alternative)

From Old Galician-Portuguese abesouro, of unknown origin. Perhaps a composite from Latin apis (“bee”) and a derivative of Germanic *sauzaz (“dry; red-brown”). Cognate with Portuguese besouro (“beetle”).

unk

unknown


devasa

From Old Galicia and Old Galician-Portuguese devasso (“desert”), perhaps from a Celtic cognate of Latin devastare (compare Irish fás and fásach, "waste, desert") ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *de + *weh₂st- (“empty, wasted”). Cognate with Portuguese devassa.

inh

firebreak, fire line, firetrail (Australia) (An area cleared of all flammable material in the woods to prevent a fire from spreading across it)


fanfarronice

fanfarronices (plural)
fanfarrice (alternative)

the behaviour of telling lies and acting falsely about one's own qualities and capacities


pitanza

From Old Galician-Portuguese pitança, from Old French pitance or from Medieval Latin pietantia, from Latin pietas (“pity”).

mãdo mia carne a Sancta Maria de Ferreyra τ mãdo y conmigo un leyto τ j.a cozedra τ un feltro τ j a colcha τ ij. fazeyróóſ τ ij lenzóóſ τ La ſoldoſ para pitãza
I bequeath my body to Santa María de Ferreira, and I bequeath there with me a bed and a mattress and a felt and a quilt and two pillows and two sheets and fifty solidi for pittance [for the poor and attendees to the burial]

1258, Clarinda de Azevedo Maia (ed.), História do galego-português. Estado linguístico da Galiza e do Noroeste de Portugal do século XII ao século XVI (com referência á situação do galego moderno). Coimbra: I.N.I.C., page 70

pittance (a small allowance of food and drink)


regatón

gl-noun

regatón m (plural regatóns, feminine regatona, feminine plural regatonas)

regatóns (plural)
regatona (feminine)
regatonas (feminine plural)

First attested in the 15th century. From regatear (“to haggle”) + -ón.

1417, A. Rodríguez González (ed.), Libro do Concello de Santiago (1416-1422). Santiago de Compostela: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 76

Item, that no reseller, man or woman, nor anyone else, dares to buy —in this city or outside of it two leagues around— anything for reselling and selling again under the penalty that is set forth

Iten que regaton nen regateira nen outra persona algũa non seja ousado de conprar enna çidade nen fora dela duas legoas arredor cousa algũa para a regatar et vender outra ves so pena adeante contiuda.


rapaza

From Old Galician-Portuguese rapaz, probably borrowed from Latin rapāx, rapācem (“who robs, plunders”).


bígaro

Uncertain. Probably from a substrate language.


sabela

sabelas (plural)
sabenla (alternative)
sabenlla (alternative)

From Latin sabanella, diminutive from sabanum.


garduña

garduñas (plural)
gardunha (alternative)

[ɡɑɾˈð̞u.ɲɐ]

[ɡɑɾˈð̞u.ɲɐ]

[ħɑɾˈð̞u.ɲɐ]


xeadería

xeaderías (plural)
xeadaría (alternative)

ice cream parlor (US), ice cream parlour (UK)


xeadaría

xeadarías (plural)
xeadería (alternative)


exolúa

(astronomy, planetology) exomoon, extrasolar moon


torrontés

torronteses (plural)
terrantés (alternative)
terrontés (alternative)

Related to From Old Galician-Portuguese terronteiro (“heap of earth”), Portuguese terrantês (“of the country”), ultimately from terra (“earth; country”).

inh

a Galician variety of grape, genetically unrelated to Argentinian Torrontés


terraplanista

gl-noun

terraplanista m or f by sense (plural terraplanistas)

From Terra (“Earth”) + plano (“flat”) + -ista.


ruindade

ruindades (plural)
ruindá (alternative proscribed)


rockódromo

From rock + -dromo, from Ancient Greek δρόμος (drómos, “a course, race course, road”). Formed by analogy with words like hipódromo, canódromo.

der

a place where a festival, especially rock, is held


pizzaría

pizzarías (plural)
pizzería (alternative)

From Italian pizzeria. By surface analysis, pizza + aría.


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gl-noun

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