trade

From Old Galician-Portuguese traado, independently attested (14th century); from Late Latin taratrum (“auger”), used by Isidore of Seville. Probably from Paleo-Hispanic or from Proto-Celtic *taratrom, from Proto-Indo-European *térh₁-tro-.
Cognate with Portuguese trado, Spanish taladro, Old Irish tarathar, Old Welsh tarater, Breton tarar.


abada

apronful, quantity contained in an apron or in the folds of a shirt


lente

Learned borrowing from Latin lēns, lentem (“lentil”), in Medieval Latin later taking on the sense of "lens".


robot

Borrowed from Czech robot, from robota, from Old Czech robota, from Proto-Slavic *orbota, from *orbiti + *-ota.


pez

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese pez (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin pix, picem.


color

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese color, alternative form of coor, perhaps from an older forms collor (compare Asturian collor and color), from Latin color, colōrem.

diz que apareçeu ẽno çeo hũa cruz, que era de muytas colores et muy fremosa; et teuerõna os cristãos por muy boo sinal

1295, R. Lorenzo, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F., page 745:

he says that a cross appeared in the sky, which was of many colors and very beauty; and the Christians considered it a very good sign

flush (suffusion of the face with blood)


van

vans (plural)
vao (alternative)
vão (alternative)

From Old Galician-Portuguese vão (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin vānus (“empty”). Cognate with Portuguese vão and Spanish vano.


te

The name of the Latin-script letter T/t.


can

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese can, from Latin canis, canem. Cognate with Portuguese cão.

Cando o can ladra na rúa, non ladra de balde.

When the dog barks in the street, it does not bark for nothing

(historical) 20th century 5, 10 cents of peseta coin


can

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese quan, from Latin quam. Cognate with Portuguese quão and Spanish cuan.


can

Borrowed from Old French chan, from Medieval Latin canus, ultimately from Turkic *qan, contraction of *qaɣan.


numeral

(grammar) numeral (word representing a number)


i

The name of the Latin-script letter I/i.


man

mans (plural)
mão (alternative)
mam (alternative)
mao (alternative)

From Old Galician-Portuguese mão, from Latin manus. Cognate with Portuguese mão and Spanish mano.

(figurative) ownership; protection; power; grasp


cum

head

cum m (feminine cumha or cuma, masculine plural cums, feminine plural cumhas or cumas)

cumha (feminine)
cuma (feminine)
cums (masculine plural)
cumhas (feminine plural)
cumas (feminine plural)


peso

From Old Galician-Portuguese peso, from Vulgar Latin *pēsum, from Latin pēnsum.


guerra

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese guerra, from Early Medieval Latin werra, borrowed from Frankish *werru, from Proto-West Germanic *werran + *-u. Doublet of varrer.


sela

From Old Galician-Portuguese sela, from Latin sella. Cognate with Portuguese sela and Spanish silla.

Nota que esta door, que chaman corno, desarreigase çedo se caualgaren en el con sella posta ante cada hũa das meezjnas

1409, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Tratado de Albeitaria, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 117:

Note that this ache, which they call horn, is soon removed if they ride [the horse] with the saddle on before each one of the medicines


menos

From Old Galician-Portuguese menos, which displaced the semi-learned form mẽos, learned borrowing from Latin minus comparative of parum.


radio

An abbreviation based on words beginning with the root radio-. Compare English radio.


radio

Borrowed from French radium, from radio(actif) + -ium.


país

Borrowed from French pays, from Old French païs, from Medieval Latin pagensis, from Latin pāgus (“country”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ-.

Cada país seu uso, cada roca seu fuso.

Each country has its usage, each distaff its spindle.

Na segunda fase, no século IX, cambea radicalmente a situación verbo das relacións entre Galicia e a corte asturiana, na que o noso país ten xa unha influencia decisiva.

1978, Emilio González López, Grandeza e decadencia do reino de Galicia, Editorial Galaxia, →ISBN, page 88:

In the second phase, during the 9th century, the situation changes radically in regards to the relations of Galicia and the Asturian Court, in which our country has already a decisive influence


amigo

gl-noun

amigo m (plural amigos, feminine amiga, feminine plural amigas)

amigos (plural)
amiga (feminine)
amigas (feminine plural)

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese amigo, from Latin amīcus, from amō + -icus.


fero

From Old Galician-Portuguese fero, from Latin ferus (“wild, uncultivated”).

characteristic taste and smell of game meat


presidente

gl-noun

presidente m (plural presidentes, feminine presidenta, feminine plural presidentas)

presidentes (plural)
presidenta (feminine)
presidentas (feminine plural)


banana

Os chimpancés utilizan bastóns para coller unha banana.

Chimpanzees use sticks to pick up a banana.


tempo

From Old Galician-Portuguese tempo, from Latin tempus, from Proto-Indo-European *tempos (“stretch”), from the root *temp- (“to stretch, string”).

O noso tempo comezou co big-bang

É tempo de castañas!

Que tempo che ten a meniña?

Que tempo temos hoxe?

afreto de vos Juan de Bayona, marineiro, besiño da villa de Pontevedra, que sodes presente, a barcha que dizen por nome San Salvador, que Deus salve, de que vos sodes mestre, para que prasendo a Deus, carrege ẽna dita barcha tres mill çeramis de millo, medidos por la medida dereita da praça da dita villa de Pontevedra, para a costa de Biscaya, a qual dita barcha deve de ser cargada do dito millo doje ata quinse dias segintes et dende partir con a boa ventura do primeiro boo tenpo que lle Deus der et en segimento de seu biajen ata o porto de Laredo et ende pousar ancla et estar tres dias hũu en pos de outro et enton devo eu, o dito mercador de dar devisa se iremos descargar aa vila de Vermeu ou aa vila de San Sabastian

1433, A. Rodríguez González & J. Armas Castro (eds.), Minutario notarial de Pontevedra (1433-1435). Santiago de Compostela: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 32

I affreigt from you, Xoán de Baiona, sailor, citizen of the town of Pontevedra, here present, the ship called San Salvador, God bless her, whose master you are, for, if God pleases, loading aboard that ship three thousand bushels of millet, as measured by the right measure of the marketplace of the aforementioned town of Pontevedra, bound for the coast of Biscay; and the aforementioned ship must be loaded with the mentioned millet from today till fifteen next days, and then to depart with good winds during the first good weather God gives, and following her journey till the harbour of Laredo, and there to cast anchor and stay for three days in a row, and then I, the aforementioned merchant, should send a message of whether we should go unload at the town of Bermeo or at the town of San Sebastian.


sol

From Old Galician-Portuguese sol, from Latin sōl (“sun”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sóh₂wl̥.

quítate do sol

daylight (the time between sunrise and sunset)


sol

(chemistry) sol (a colloid suspension of a solid in a liquid)


lama

From Old Galician-Portuguese lama (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), either from Latin lāma (“marshy place, bog”), or from Paleo-Hispanic but having the same ultimate origin.

Onde moitos cuspen, lama fan.


bongo

Tragelaphus eurycerus
Tragelaphus eurycerus#Translingual


estadounidense

estadounidense m or f by sense (plural estadounidenses)

From Estados Unidos (“United States”) + -ense.


mundo

From Old Galician-Portuguese mundo, from Latin mundus.

Hai un mundo de xente a se manifestar en Hong Kong!

There is a lot of people demonstrating in Hong Kong!

There is a world of people demonstrating in Hong Kong!


son

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese sõo, son (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria, probably influenced by or possibly borrowed from Old Occitan son), from Latin sonus. Alternatively, regressively derived from the verb soar. Compare Portuguese som, Spanish son.

inh+

Et começou o torneo a creçer tãto, et a seer o acapelamento tã grande, et a uolta et os braados et os alaridos et os sõos dos cornos et das tronpas tã grandes et tã esquiuos que ome nõ se podía oýr

1370, R. Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 561:

And the tournament began to grow so much, and the carnage was so large, and the din and the roars and the yells and the sounds of the horns and of the trumpets so big and harsh that a man couldn't heard himself

Et pasando porllos ditos, hu ha gran roido et gran soon se se o Cauallo espantar no no deuen ferir con açorregos, nen con vara, nen con espora, mais deuen no trager mansamente, con hũa cana afaagandoo et lleuandoo porllos ditos llugares a miude

1409, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Tratado de Albeitaria, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 69:

And passing by the mentioned places, where there is big noise and big sound, if the horse frightens, they should not wound him with whips nor with a stick, nor with spoor, rather they should bring him meekly, fondling him with a twig and taking him through this places often


chocolate

chocolates (plural)
chicolate (alternative)
chiculate (alternative)

Attested since 1697 (chicolate). From Spanish chocolate, from a Nahuatl word. See chocolate.

Non quer tocar a gaita si non lle dan chocolate.

He doesn't want to play the bagpipes if they don't give him chocolate.


coral

From Old Galician-Portuguese coral, borrowed from Old French coral, from Latin corallium, from Ancient Greek κοράλλιον (korállion).

mando a miña Neta Tareija sanches todo o aliofar et coraes que eu ey et os esmaltes et o meu Reliquario esmaltado et a miña Cunca de plata dourada et as miñas doas de ouro

1395, Antonio López Ferreiro, editor, Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática, Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 160:

I send to my granddaughter Tareixa Sanchez all of my pearls and corals, and the enamels, and my enamelled relicary and my gilded silver bowl and my beads of gold

roe (the eggs or ovaries of certain crustaceans)

Eunicella verrucosa
Wikispecies:Eunicella verrucosa


carne

From Old Galician-Portuguese carne, from Latin carō, carnem.

Hoxe temos carne asada para comer.


salsa

From Vulgar Latin *salsa, noun use of the feminine of Latin salsus (“salted”), from saliō, from sal.


bosque

Probably borrowed from Catalan or Occitan bosc, from Late Latin boscus, from Proto-Germanic *buskaz.


aceite

From Old Galician-Portuguese azeite (13ᵗʰ century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Andalusian Arabic, from Arabic الزَّيْت (az-zayt, “oil, edible or for combustion”). Cognate with Portuguese azeite, Spanish aceite, and Hebrew זית (záyit, “olive”).

der

(by extension) oil used for cooking or illumination


gripe

Attested since 1853. Borrowed from French grippe


grito

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese grito (independently attested in both corpora; in Galician since circa 1300), back-formation from gritar.

inh+

Et uĩjnan dando tã grãdes vozes et tã grandes gritos et fazendo tã grãdes roydos, que semellaua que todo o mũdo y vĩjna

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 92:

And they were uttering so large voices and so large shouts and making so large noises that it seemed that all the world were coming there


grupo

Borrowed from Italian gruppo. Compare Renaissance Latin grupus.


voz

From Old Galician-Portuguese voz, from Latin vōcem, singular accusative of vōx.


tear

Tea (“cloth”) + -ar. Compare Portuguese tear and Spanish telar.


ben

From Old Galician-Portuguese ben, from Latin bene.

good (the forces that are the enemy of evil)


granada

[ɡɾaˈna.ð̞ɐ]

[ɡɾaˈna.ð̞ɐ]

[ħɾaˈna.ð̞ɐ]

From the feminine of Latin grānātum (“pomegranate”), from grānātus (“having many seeds”), from grānum (“seed, grain”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵr̥h₂nóm (“grain”).


burro

gl-noun

burro m (plural burros, feminine burra, feminine plural burras)

burros (plural)
burra (feminine)
burras (feminine plural)

Ultimately from Latin burricus (“small horse”), from burrus (“red-brown”), from Ancient Greek πυρρός (purrhós, “flame colored”), from πῦρ (pûr, “fire”).


pico

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese pico, from Vulgar Latin *piccus, ultimately either of Germanic origin or from Proto-Celtic *bekkos (“beak”).

inh+

peak; summit; top (the highest point of a mountain)

(by extension) a hill or mountain that ends in a peak

c1350, Kelvin M. Parker (ed.), Historia Troyana. Santiago: Instituto "Padre Sarmiento", page 30

And she gathered from the best, more noble and virtuous herbs, a quantity, together with its roots, uprooting them with the help of the tip of a sickle

Et colleu ella de aquelas mellores et mays nobles et virtuosas eruas hũa partida cõ suas rrayzes, arrãcãdoas cõ hũ pico de hũa fouçe.

Et escaleyras nõ tĩjnã y nẽ picos

1295, Ramón Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F., page 873:

They didn't had there ladders or pickaxes


matanza

desque õme fuj formado, nũca ueu tal matança nẽ tal marteyro cõmo era sóbrelos de Troya

1370, Ramón Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, page 621:

since the man was made, he never saw such a slaughter nor such a martyrdom as that that was befalling the Trojans


remonta

(clothing) decorative patch that used to adorn male dressing pieces


sangría

[s̺ɑŋˈɡɾi.ɐ]

[s̺ɑŋˈɡɾi.ɐ]

[s̺ɑŋˈħɾi.ɐ]

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese sangria (14th century). Probably borrowed from Old Spanish sangria.

se o Cauallo for groso et de ydade conprida dalle llogo a beber aa sa uontade primeiramente, et depois sangrao danbas llas ueeas das trincheiras et outrosy danbas llas ueeas das coixas en que a sangrya soen a fazer et saqenlle moito sange ataa que semelle que enfraqueçe

1409, José Luis Pensado Tomé, editor, Tratado de Albeitaria, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 97:

if the horse is big and older, let him drink as much as he wants first, and then bleed him in both veins of the temples and also in both veins of the thighs, where they usually do the bloodlettings, and bleed him till he seems to faint


pato

gl-noun

pato m (plural patos, feminine pata, feminine plural patas)

patos (plural)
pata (feminine)
patas (feminine plural)

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese pato, borrowed from Arabic بَطّ (baṭṭ).


pata

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese pata.


torta

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin turta. Thought to derive from Latin tŏrta f (“twisted”).


saia

13th century, but well attested since the 10th century in local Medieval Latin documents as saia. From Old Galician-Portuguese saya, from Vulgar Latin *săgĭa, from Latin sagum, cognate of Ancient Greek σάγος (ságos); probably from Paleo-Hispanic (Apian wrote that the word was considered proper of the Celts of Iberia) and ultimately from Celtic.


español

gl-noun

español m (plural españois, feminine española, feminine plural españolas)

españois (plural)
española (feminine)
españolas (feminine plural)
espanhol (alternative)

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese espanhol. Compare Portuguese espanhol and Spanish español.


viña

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese vinha, from Latin vīnea (“vineyard, grapevine”), from vīnum (“wine”).


día

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese dia, from Vulgar Latin *dia, first-declension reshaping of Classical Latin diēs.

period of light, when the sun is above the horizon


gallo

Probably from Vulgar Latin *galleus, from Latin galla (“oak-apple”). Cognate with Portuguese galho.


luz

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese luz, from Latin lūcem, from Proto-Italic *louks, from the Proto-Indo-European root *lewk- (“white; light; bright”). Compare Portuguese luz.


mapa

Learned borrowing from Latin mappa (“napkin”).


escritorio

escritorios (plural)
escritório (alternative)


rato

13th century. Obscure. From a family of words common to most Romance and Germanic languages; the Germanic origin of this family of words is not universally accepted. Compare English rat.

unk

Obscure

(computer hardware) mouse (input device used to move a pointer on the screen)


negociante

gl-noun

negociante m or f by sense (plural negociantes)


mama

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese mama, from Latin mamma.


larva

From Latin larva (“ghost-like, masked”).


mal

Latin language
Old Galician-Portuguese language

From Old Galician-Portuguese mal, from Latin malum.


mal

males (plural)
malle (alternative)
mallo (alternative)
manle (alternative)
manlle (alternative)

Attested since circa 1300 (máále), from Latin manualis (“manual”). Cognate with Portuguese mangual.

cõmo faz a lyma ao ferro, et a fornaz ao ouro que o purga et esmera et o faz puro et paresçe mellor, et cõmo faz outrosi o máále áá messe que a degrana em çeueyra et parte a palla do graão que e o mellor

c. 1300, R. Martínez López, editor, General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV, Oviedo: Archivum, page 271:

as the file does to iron, and the furnace to gold, that purges and cleans it and makes it pure and looks better; and also as the flail does to the harvest, that threshes it into sustenance and parts the straw and the grain, which is the best part

Iten, preçaron hun maal en tres maravedis

1474, Antonio López Ferreiro, editor, Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática, Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 67:

Item, they appraised a flail in three coins


canal

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese canal (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria): cana (“cane, reed”) + -al. Cognate with Spanish cañal.

inh+

V casares en Cesar os quaes fforon de Mayor Aras moller de Martin Sanchez Xarpa com huum paaço et con huum canal enno Tamare.

1375, A. López Ferreiro, editor, Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática, Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 385:

5 farmhouses in Cesar, which belonged to Maior Aras, wife of Martín Sánchez Xarpa, with a manor and a fishery on the river Tambre

(dated) fish-weir; place or installation for fishing, on a river


canal

Learned borrowing from Latin canalis. Doublet of canle and cal.


criminal

gl-noun

criminal m or f by sense (plural criminais)

criminal (a person who has committed a crime)


actor

actor m (plural actores, feminine actriz, feminine plural actrices)

actores (plural)
actriz (feminine)
actrices (feminine plural)
ator (alternative)

A acción revela o actor.


cable

cables (plural)
calabre (alternative)
cabre (alternative)

Attested in 1432 as caabre. From Old French chaable (“cable”).

1432, A. Rodríguez González (ed.), Livro do Concello de Pontevedra (1431-1463). Pontevedra: Museo de Pontevedra, page 69

Also, that nobody dares to moor any ship to the bridge of this town, nor to put stakes in it. Whoever does another thing shall pay as a penalty 20 maravedis for the first time, 30 for the second time, and for the third time he will lose the cable or rope used for mooring the ship, and shall stay up to ten days in prison

Outrosy, que nenghum seja ousado de amarrar nauio algund a a Ponte desta dita billa nen meter estaqas en ela e o que o contrario fezer peyte de pena por la primeira vez XX marauedises e por la segunda XXX maravedisse e por la tercera que pague perca o caabre ou cordaçon que asy amarrar o dito nauio e fasta dez dias enna cadea


funeral

funeral (ceremony to honour and bury a deceased person)


espanhol

espanhóis (plural)
espanhola (feminine)
espanholas (feminine plural)


parasol

umbrella, sunshade, parasol (used to protect against the sun)


limo

mucus, especially the mucus of a cow in heat

green seaweed that covers humid or submerged surfaces


base

From Latin basis, from Ancient Greek βάσις (básis).


hospital

Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *hostipotjālis
Latin hospitālis
Late Latin hospitāle
Old Galician-Portuguese espital
Galician hospital
From Old Galician-Portuguese hospital, espital, spital, borrowed from Late Latin hospitālis, hospitāle (“hospice, shelter, guesthouse”), from Latin hospitālis (“hospitable”).

bor

Foi visitar un enfermo ao hospital. Un hospital privado.

He went to visit a sick person in the hospital. A private hospital.


metal

De pouco lle sirve seu duro metal que o tempo e o tempo virá a derreter.

His hard metal is of little use to him as time and time will come to melt.


volume

volume (single book of a published work)


sal

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese sal, from Latin salem. Compare Portuguese sal.

inh+

No camiño me colleno co'aquelas pedras de sal que o sol fixo de agua doce misturada coa do mar.

In the way, I picked up with those salt stones that the sun made from fresh water mixed with sea water.


barón

baróns (plural)
barom (alternative)
barão (alternative)

From Old French baron. Doublet of varón.


varón

varóns (plural)
varom (alternative)
varão (alternative)

From Old Galician-Portuguese varon, baron (13th century), from Latin barōnem (“man”). Doublet of barón.

13th century, Antonio López Ferreiro (ed.), Fueros municipales de Santiago y de su tierra. Madrid: Ediciones Castilla, p. 699

that excommunicated sin that men do with one another

aquel pecado escumungado que fazen os barones unos con outros

ca esta (he) muy boa et nobre rreyna dona Berĩguela co[m] tamana aguça gardou sempre este fillo et llj meteu no curaçõ feyto de obras de piedade de ome barõ, mãçebo et nino, et todo linagẽ de omes -esto he barõ et moller-

c. 1295, Ramón Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F, page 814:

because this very noble and excellent queen, Lady Berenguela, with great care protected her son and put in his heart acts of piety of adult man, young man and boy, and of all the lineage of men -that is, man and woman-


chan

chans (plural)
chá (alternative)
chao (alternative)

From Old Galician-Portuguese chão, from Latin plānum. Compare Portuguese chão, Spanish llano.


ano

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese ano (“year”), from Latin annus (“year”).


torque

torque (a tightly braided necklace or collar, often made of metal, worn by various early European peoples.)


home

From Old Galician-Portuguese ome, omẽe, from Latin homō, hominem, from Proto-Italic *hemō, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰm̥mṓ.

Unha sebe tres anos dura; un can tres sebes; unha mula tres cans; un home tres mulas

A hedge lasts three years; a dog three hedges; a mule three dogs; a person three mules

O home chegou á Lúa en 1969

Home casado muller é

Home pequeno fol de veleno

Éste é o meu home, Xaquín


manga

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *(s)meh₂-der.
Proto-Italic *manus
Latin manus
Latin manica
Old Galician-Portuguese manga
Galician manga
From Old Galician-Portuguese manga (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin manica.


manga

Etymology tree
Proto-Dravidian *māmder.
Tamil மாங்காய் (māṅkāy)bor.
Malay manggabor.?
Proto-Dravidian *māmder.
Malayalam മാങ്ങ (māṅṅa)bor.?
Portuguese mangabor.
Galician manga
Borrowed from Portuguese manga, from Malay mangga, from Tamil மாங்காய் (māṅkāy) from மா (mā, “mango species”) + காய் (kāy, “unripe fruit”).

der

Tamil மாங்காய் (māṅkāy)

Botoulle manga á ensalada


manga

Ultimately from Japanese 漫画(まんが) (manga).

(comics) manga (comic originating in Japan)


sábado

[ˈs̺a.β̞a.ð̞ʊ]

From Old Galician-Portuguese sabado, from Latin or Ecclesiastical Latin sabbatum, from Ancient Greek σάββατον (sábbaton, “Sabbath”), from Hebrew שַׁבָּת (shabát, “Sabbath”).

Foi nun día sábado cando todos cremos , que a reina dos anxos fai os seus misteiros.

It was on a Saturday when we all believe that the queen of angels performs her mysteries.

days of the week: día da semana: luns · martes · mércores · xoves · venres · sábado · domingo [edit]


homosexual

gl-noun

homosexual m or f by sense (plural homosexuais)


domingo

From Old Galician-Portuguese domingo, from a shortening of Late Latin diēs Dominicus (“Sunday”, literally “day of the Lord”).


nadir

nadir (point of the celestial sphere directly under the place where the observer stands)


pear

From Vulgar Latin *pilare, from Latin pīla (“pillar”).

one of several stone pillars placed by way of a bridge


corazón

corazóns (plural)
coraçom (alternative)
coração (alternative)

From Old Galician-Portuguese coraçon, from Vulgar Latin *corāceōnem, derived from Latin cor.

the seat of human fortitude, valor, spirit

(card games) heart (a playing card of the suit hearts, corazóns)


flor

flores (plural)
fror (alternative)
frol (alternative)
chor (alternative)

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese flor, borrowed from Latin flos, from Proto-Italic *flōs, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃-. The variant chor shows the expected phonetic evolution of Latin /fl-/. Compare Portuguese flor.

etymon

film (solid or opaque layer on a liquid)


música

Attested since circa 1300. Learned borrowing from Latin mūsica, from Ancient Greek μουσική (mousikḗ, “of a Muse”).

der

Jubal [...] achou primeyramẽte a arte de musica que he arte de cantar et de fazer sones.

c. 1300, R. Martínez López, editor, General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV, Oviedo: Archivum, page 16:

Jubal … was the first to find the art of music, which is the art of singing and making sounds

female equivalent of músico (“musician”)


libro

From Old Galician-Portuguese livro (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin liber, librum (“book”). Compare Portuguese livro.

Nunca mostrara moito interese pola lectura, pero tomou en préstamo un libro, e a este seguíronlle moitos outros, tantos que pouco a pouco a afección se converteu en devoción, o que perturbou as relacións coa súa familia, os ministros, a servidume e os amigos.

2010, Moisés Barcia, transl., Unha lectora fóra do común, page back cover:

[She] had never shown much interest for reading, but then borrowed a book, and many more afterwards, so many that little by little her affection became devotion, which disturbed her relations with her family, the ministers, servitude and her friends.


cor

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese coor (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin color, colōrem.


cor

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese cor (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Vulgar Latin *corem m, from Latin cor n.


con

cons (plural)
co (alternative)
coio (alternative)
com (alternative)

Attested in local Medieval Latin documents as cauno, with a derived cauneto, from Proto-Celtic *akaunon (“stone”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éḱmō. Unlikely from Latin cōnus, which should have originated a word with a closed stressed vowel. Doublet of gouño.

boulder, specially those found semi-submerged at the seashore


delta

delta (landform at the mouth of a river)


natural

gl-noun

natural m or f by sense (plural naturais)

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese natural, borrowed from Latin nātūrālis.


natural

nature (innate characteristics of a person)


lunar

Learned borrowing from Latin lūnāris. Compare the inherited luar.


idea

Learned borrowing from Latin idea, from Ancient Greek ἰδέα (idéa, “notion, pattern”), from εἴδω (eídō, “I see”).


iota

The name of the Latin-script letter J/j.


talo

From Latin thallus, from Ancient Greek θαλλός (thallós).


casa

From Old Galician-Portuguese casa, from Latin casa.

structure serving as an abode of human beings

Casa de Andrade

(board games) a cell which may be occupied by a piece (such as a square in a chessboard)


uva

From Old Galician-Portuguese uva, from Latin ūva.


tulipán

tulipáns (plural)
túlipa (alternative)
tulipa (alternative)


café

O día estaba frío, e despois de xantar os convidados dixeron que non lles sentaría nada mal un café.

It was a cold day, and after lunch the guests decided to have a coffee.


area

From Old Galician-Portuguese arẽa, from Latin arēnā (“sand”). Cognate with Portuguese areia and Spanish arena.


cesta

Attested since the 13th century. Inherited from Latin cista, from Ancient Greek κίστη (kístē), but semantically closer to Proto-Celtic *kist-: Middle Irish cess (“basket, causeway of wickerwork, beehive”), Old Welsh cest (“basket”).

cog

darnos kada ano una cesta de peras

1272, Ramón Lorenzo, editor, Mosteiro de Montederramo, page 469:

basket, specially larger ones without handles or with side handles

(regional) smaller basket with a central handle


fe

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese fe, from Latin fidem. Compare Fala fe and Portuguese fé.


ar

From Old Galician-Portuguese aar, from an older aere, from Latin aēr.


acción

accións (plural)
açom (alternative)
ação (alternative)

Learned borrowing from Latin āctiōnem. Cognate with Portuguese ação.

action (made of acting, of producing something with a certain effect on something)

action (succession of events that constitute the argument or theme of a narrative, dramatic work, or a film)

(economics) share (financial instrument)


escudo

From Old Galician-Portuguese escudo, from Latin scūtum.

Oyde, que mandan diser noso señor El Rey por sua carta firmada de seu nome et seelada de seu seelo a todos los omees de pe fillos dalgo que viuen et están en esta çibdade, casados et por casar, de viinte anos arriba et de çincoenta a juso, que se presenten todos con suas espadas et escudos et lanças et outras armas que teueren ante Loys Garçia de Córdoua

1437, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 170:

Hear! our lord the King orders, by his letter signed with his name and sealed with his seal, that every free man, infantryman, who lives in this city, married and unmarried, being twenty years old or more, fifty years or less, that all of them must present themselves with their swords and shields and spears and other arms that they happen to have before Lois Garcia de Córdoba

hua carta do dito Johan Peres, fillo que foy de dito Fedro Ponço, seelada de seu seelo pendente de cera enno qual seelo era vn escudo et enno escudo duas omagees de cabezas

1274, E. Cal Pardo (ed.), "De Viveiro en la Edad Media", Estudios Mindonienses, 7, page 87

a letter by this Xoán Pérez, son of the late Fedro Ponzo, sealed with his hanging wax seal, and on this seal there was a coat of arms, and on that coat two images of heads


escudo

Iten digo que eu agora non teño mais debdas que a de tristam de montenegro tio da dita miña moller que me emprestou de hua vez trinta escudos e de outra seys marcos de plata

1473, Antonio López Ferreiro, editor, Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática, Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 30:

Item, I said that at the moment I have no more debts than that with Tristán de Montenegro, my wife's uncle, who lent me thirty escudos at one time and six silver marcs on another occasion


la

From Old Galician-Portuguese lãa, from Latin lāna.


po

pos (plural)
pó (alternative)
poo (alternative)

From Old Galician-Portuguese poo, from Vulgar Latin *pulus, from earlier *pulvus n, from Latin pulvis m, from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“flour, dust”). Compare Portuguese pó. Doublet of polvo, which was borrowed from Spanish polvo.

der

et este pan deue a seer qual o Deus der no logar et seer linpo de palla et de poo, d'eruellada et de mosceyra, et deue a seer ben seco et ben linpo et bõõ pan

1276, M. Lucas Álvarez, P. Lucas Dominguez, editors, El monasterio de San Clodio do Ribeiro en la Edad Media: estudio y documentos, Sada / A Coruña: Edicións do Castro, page 375:

and this grain must be that that God gives at that place, and it must be clean of chaff and dust, of vetch and fodder, and it must be well dry and well clean and good grain

E Nota que o poo dos collos das abroteas ual mays que todos llos outros, et dos ditos poos deuen vsar nos llugarres neruossos et jntrincados de veas et darterias

1409, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Rufus, Jordanus: Tratado de Albeitaria, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 141:

Take note that the powder of the rhizomes of the asphodels has more value than all the rest, and that these powders should be used in places that are nervous and entangled with veins and arteries


ra

ras (plural)
arrá (alternative)
arrán (alternative)
ran (alternative)
raa (alternative)

From Old Galician-Portuguese rãa (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin rana.


pa

pas (plural)
pá (alternative)
paa (alternative)

From Old Galician-Portuguese paa, from Latin pāla (“shovel, spade”).

shovel; spade (tool for digging and moving material)

the end of a paddle or oar with the blade


democracia

Borrowed from Ancient Greek δημοκρατία (dēmokratía).

bor+

(uncountable) democracy (rule by the people)

(countable, government) democracy (government under the rule of its people)


información

informacións (plural)
informaçom (alternative)
informação (alternative)


pálpebra

Learned borrowing from Latin palpebra. Doublet of perfeba. Cognate with Portuguese pálpebra.

eyelid (mobile membrane that covers and protects the visible part of the eye)


baba

Attested since the 18th century. From the hypothesized Vulgar Latin *baba, ultimately imitative of children speech on the pattern of the repeated syllable ba.

onomatopoeic

imitative

slime (mucus-like substance which exudes from the bodies of certain animals)


real

From Latin rēgālis (“royal”), from rēx (“king”) + -alis, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵs (“ruler, king”).


toro

13th century. Inherited from Latin torus, cognate with Spanish tuero. In the second meaning it is rather a learned borrowing from Latin from the same etymon.

todos estes disserun que a herdade dessa hermida de San Martino de Rates que era departida da outra herdade regaenga pela cerdeyra do outeyro que esta cabo do camino, et dessi como uay et enfia ao toro do castineiro de cyma que chaman da senrra do regaengo

1277, Francisco Javier Pérez Rodríguez, editor, Os documentos do tombo de Toxos Outos, Santiago de Compostela: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 112:

all of them said that the property of the hermitage of Saint Martin of Rates departed from the other royal property by the cherry tree of the hill, which is by the path, and from there in direction to the trunk of the chestnut tree above where they call the Senra do Reguengo


mate

From xaque mate (“checkmate”), from Arabic شَاه مَاتَ (šāh māta), from Persian شاه مات (šâh mât, “the king [is] dead”).

Arabic شَاه مَاتَ (šāh māta)


mate

Ilex paraguariensis
Ilex paraguariensis#Translingual

maté (the drink prepared from yerba maté (Ilex paraguariensis)

Ilex paraguariensis, a plant used to make maté


mate

(basketball) dunk (the act of dunking, particularly in basketball)


testa

From Old Galician-Portuguese testa (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin testa (“earthen pot”).

1390, José Luís Pensado Tomé (ed.), Os Miragres de Santiago. Versión gallega del Códice latino del siglo XII atribuido al papa Calisto I. Madrid: C.S.I.C., page 133

He had a palmspan and a half in his face, and in the beard a palmspan, and half one in the nose; and in the front he had one palmspan and a little more

Et avia ẽno rrostro hũu palmo et meo en longo et ẽna barua hũu palmo, et ẽno nariz hũu meo palmo; et ẽna testa hũu palmo et pouquo mais

1434, A. López Carreira (ed.), Libro de Notas de Álvaro Afonso, doc. 90

one of that horses was really dark, with a signal in his forehead, and the other was tawny with a spot in his forehead

os quaes roçiins era huun delles ven preto con hun signal enna testa et ho outro ben çerbyño con huna mancha enna testa

Dubido do que farei / Para saír desta enfeita / Maxino roer as uñas / E bourar mui ben na testa

1697, several authors, Fiestas Minervales, Santiago: Antonio Frayz, page 34:

I'm dubious on what to do / To exit of this preparation / I imagine gnawing my nails / And ably beating my head


bar

Borrowed from English bar. Doublet of barra.

bar, coffee shop, café, pub (an establishment where refreshments and alcohol drinks are served)


bar

Borrowed from English bar and this from Ancient Greek βάρος (báros, “weight”).


negro

gl-noun

negro m (plural negros, feminine negra, feminine plural negras)

negros (plural)
negra (feminine)
negras (feminine plural)

From Old Galician-Portuguese negro, from Latin nigrum.


tomate

Borrowed from Spanish tomate, from Classical Nahuatl tomatl (“tomatillo”), the tomato proper being xītomatl.

Pois temos sopa de fideos, cocido, merluza frita e língoa con tomate.


madeira

[mɐˈð̞ej.ɾɐ]

From Old Galician-Portuguese madeira, from Latin materia. Cf. also materia.

Hoxe aquel recuncho cerca Unha reixa de madeira.

Today that corner is surrounded by a fence of wood.


cola

From Vulgar Latin colla, from Ancient Greek κόλλα (kólla, “glue”). Compare Spanish cola, French colle, Italian colla.

yten hordenamos e por ben temos que ningún, nen alguos oficiaas que labrar contas ou fezer labrar ou vender de azabache, que non seja ousado de soldar, nen juntar peça nenhua, conben a saver, ymagen de santiago, nen crucifixo, nen conchas, nen contas, nen sortellas, nen outra pesa nenhua que seja quebrada con betume, nen con cola, nen con solda, nen quon outra cousa

1433, A. López Ferreiro, editor, Fueros municipales de Santiago y de su tierra, Madrid: Ediciones Castilla, page 493:

item, we order and pleases us that no one, neither some officials who carve beans or order to carve or sell jet, should dare to solder not joint any piece, that is: neither image of Saint James, nor crucifix, nor shells, nor beans, nor rings, nor any other broken thing, with bitumen, nor glue, nor solder, nor with any other thing


cola

From Vulgar Latin coda, from Latin cauda. Doublet of cúa.

desla çintura arriba cõmo fegura de omẽ, et dende ajuso cõmo de peyxe cõ escamas et sua cola

c. 1300, R. Martínez López, editor, General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV, Oviedo: Archivum, page 134:

from the waist upwards as the figure of a man, and from them down as that of a fish, with scales and its tail

Pois señor, eu paso pola calle e vou de présa: tripo unha cola dunha señorita; eu caio, ela cai; o pai que vai con ela, dáme de paus co bastón; un meu compañeiro, que tampouco pode ver esas modas, sai na miña defensa; eu levántome e axúdolle; a nena dá gritos; os serenos acoden; nós non lle facemos caso; a xente vén correndo a ve-lo que pasa, repítese entre ela o que a min xa me pasou; caien uns enriba doutros, e hai confusión, e aies, e berros, e paresce que toda aquela calle está chea de demos que andan arrincando as lousas pra irse pró inferno. Resultado: un escadrón de caballería sai a despexar a calle, e nos vamos direitos á prevención.

"Well, then I'm walking down the street in a hurry: I trip on a young lady's train; I fall, she falls; her father, which is by her side, strikes me some blows with his canes; a companion of mine, who also can't stand these fashions, comes to defend me; I stand up and help him; the girl shouts; the guards come; we don't acknowledge them; people come at the run to see what's going on, and it happens to them what has happened to me; they fall ones on top of the others, and there is confusion and laments and shouts, and it seems that the street is full with demons who are pulling out the flagstones to get to hell. Result: a cavalry squadron comes to clear the street, and we go direct to jail."

train (elongated back portion of a dress)


cola

Ultimately from a Niger-Congo language, or from Sudanese.


ola

From Old Galician-Portuguese ola (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin ōlla (“pot, jar”). Cognate with Spanish olla and with Portuguese olha (a borrowing from Spanish).

Polo rabo da culler entra o gato na ola

By the spoon handle the cat enters the pot

amasa todo en huun et cozeo en ola noua ben cuberta de huun testo, que non posa ende sayr bafo nen fumo

1409, José Luis Pensado Tomé, editor, Rufus, Jordanus: Tratado de Albeitaria, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 141:

knead everything together and cook it in a new pot, well covered by a lid, so that neither steam nor smoke come out

Váian ao inferno a beber,
Que a min ben me xiringaron
E, entre mangas e riostras,
Trecentos reás vöaron.
Débenme, Dios sabe canto,
O menos trint’e set’olas
E coidaban os larpeiros
De pagarmas con parolas.

c. 1840, Ramón Varela Vahamonde, Conversa entre os arrieiros:

Let them go to Hell to drink,
because they harmed me very much
and, among other things,
three hundred reals flew away.
They owe me God knows how much,
at least a hundred and fifty gallons,
and the gluttons thought of
paying me with banter.

a unit of volume, equivalent to 16 litres or some 4 gallons


ampere

From French ampère, from French physicist André-Marie Ampère.


joule

From English joule, from English physicist James Prescott Joule.


altar

From Old Galician-Portuguese altar (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin altāre.

[…]et talloulle a cabeça dentro ẽno tẽplo, ante o altar.

1370, Ramón Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 660:

[…] and he cut his head inside, in the temple, before the altar.

altar (flat-topped structure used for religious rites)


estado

From Old Galician-Portuguese estado, from Latin status (“status, condition”).


ser

From Old Galician-Portuguese ser, from Early Medieval Latin essere, from Latin esse. The forms son (“I am”) and sodes pl (“you are”) derive from a Vulgar Latin *sonō and *sutis.
Along the way, the verb absorbed Old Galician-Portuguese seer < Latin sedēre (“sit”). The latter supplied the present subjunctive of modern ser, where /-ʃ-/ reflects Late Latin /-(d)j-/, as in sexa < sedeat).


cobra

cobras (plural)
cóbrega (alternative)
quiobra (alternative)

From Old Galician-Portuguese coobra (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Vulgar Latin *colŏbra, altered from Classical Latin colubra, feminine counterpart to coluber (“snake”), of uncertain origin.


cobra

From Old Galician-Portuguese cobra, from Latin copula.


ordenador

/ɔɾðɪnɐˈðoɾ/


computador

Learned borrowing from Latin computator.


agua

(proscribed) Alternative form of auga (“water”)


demo

From Old Galician-Portuguese demõ (“demon; devil”), from Latin daemon (“demon”), from Ancient Greek δαίμων (daímōn, “god, goddess, divine power”).

der

O demo ós seus quer.


té

Tomar o té é un costume moi inglés que os británicos trouxeron dende a India.


tea

From Old Galician-Portuguese tea (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin tēla. Cognate with Portuguese teia and Spanish tela.

It. mando que todollos lenços delgados et teas de rens que os tome Garcia perez. et que faça delles fazer uestimentas para o altar de Sta Maria.

1326, Antonio López Ferreiro, editor, Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática, Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 300:

Item, I command that every fine linen and the clothes of Reims to be taken by Garcia Perez, who should make them into clothes for the altar of Saint Mary


tea

From Old Galician-Portuguese tea (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin taeda, from Ancient Greek δάος (dáos, “torch”).


don

gl-noun

don m (plural dons, feminine dona, feminine plural donas)

dons (plural)
dona (feminine)
donas (feminine plural)

From Late Latin domnus, from Latin dominus (“lord”). Cognates include Spanish don.


papa

Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin papas, from Ancient Greek πάπας (pápas, “bishop, patriarch”), variant of πάππας (páppas, “father”).


papa

From Old Galician-Portuguese papa (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin pappa.


ADN

Initialism of ácido desoxirribonucleico (“deoxyribonucleic acid”).

initialism

ácido desoxirribonucleico
ácido desoxirribonucleico#Galician

deoxyribonucleic acid
deoxyribonucleic acid#English

(biochemistry) Initialism of ácido desoxirribonucleico. DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid)


saber

From Old Galician-Portuguese saber, from Latin sapere (“taste, know”).


primavera

From Old Galician-Portuguese primavera (“early spring”), from Late Latin prīma vēra, from Latin prīmus (“first”) + vēr (“spring”).


italiano

gl-noun

italiano m (plural italianos, feminine italiana, feminine plural italianas)

italianos (plural)
italiana (feminine)
italianas (feminine plural)


local

Borrowed from Late Latin locālis, from Latin locus.


mango

From Old Galician-Portuguese mango (13th century, Alfonso X), from Early Medieval Latin manicus, derived from Latin manus (“hand”). Compare Portuguese mango, Spanish mango.


oasis

oasis (spring of fresh water in a desert)


porto

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese porto, from Latin portus.

inh+

pelo camino que vay peraa devesa de valadares asy como vay o porto do rrio u pasan os carros

1264, E. Portela Silva, editor, La región del obispado de Tuy en los siglos XII a XV, Santiago: Tip. El Eco Franciscano, page 364:

by the road that goes to the wood of Valadares as it goes by the ford of the river where the carts cross


poeta

From Latin poēta, from Ancient Greek ποιητής (poiētḗs).


vinco

Attested since the 15th century (binco). Semi-learned borrowing from Latin vinculum. Doublet of brinco and vínculo.

slbor

Iten, Johán Cortido, vesiño da çidade d'Ourense, et sua ama diseron, por lo dito juramento que feito avyan, que omes de Aluaro de Taboa[da] que lle lleuaron e tomaron do seu lugar de Casa Noua sete mantas e hun alfamare e tres sabaas de cama et hun pano de cabeça et quatro toucas et hun sodario et viinte e duas maranas de fiado delgado et seys bincos de prata et huas doas de viinte pares de doas et hun leitón, por que lle dauan dosentos mrs, et seys sacos et dous coitellos de mesa et çen mrs vellos en diñeiros, et tres capilejos et dous vntos, et dous legóos nouos et hun espeto et hua fouçe et hun caldeiro de cobre et hun manto vermello et hua sabaa, e que todo lle tomaran e que a apancaran e que a encheran de couçes

1448, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros, Vigo: Galaxia, page 295:

Item, Xoán Cortido, neighbor of the city of Ourense, and his housekeeper, told, under the oath they'd done, that men of Álvaro de Taboada took from them and took in their place of Casa Nova: seven blankets, a quilt, three bedsheets, a cloth for the head, and four shawls and a shroud and twenty two skeins of thin yarn and six silver earrings and twenty pairs of beads and a piglet, for which they would give two hundred maravedis, and six bags and two table knives and a hundred old maravedis in coins, and three coifs and two lards, and two new hoes and a roasting skewer and a sickle and a copper cauldron and a red robe and a sheet, and that all this they took and that they beat her up and filled her with kicks


libra

From Old Galician-Portuguese livra, attested in the 13th-century Cantigas de Santa Maria, from Latin libra (“Roman pound”). Doublet of lira. In reference to the English unit, a calque of English pound. Cognate with Portuguese and Spanish libra and Catalan lliura.

English or American pound, a unit of mass equivalent to 453.6 g

(historical) Galician pound, a unit of mass equivalent to about 575 g

(historical) libra, Spanish pound, a unit of mass equivalent to about 460 g

British pound, a unit of British currency originally notionally equal to a pound of sterling silver

(chiefly historical) pound, other similar currencies originally notionally equal to a pound of gold or silver


libra

Libra (someone with the Libra star sign)


serra

From Old Galician-Portuguese serra, from Latin serra. Cognate with Portuguese serra and Spanish sierra.


zona

Attested since circa 1300. Learned borrowing from Latin zōna.


falar

From Old Galician-Portuguese falar, from Latin fābulārī (“chat, converse”). Doublet of fabular, which was borrowed from Latin. Compare Asturian, Mirandese and Portuguese falar, Spanish hablar.

O falar non ten cancelas.


arma

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese arma, from Late Latin arma (“weapon”), from Latin arma (“defensive arms”). Compare Portuguese arma.


lagarto

[lɑˈɣ̞ɑɾ.t̪ʊ]

[lɑˈɣ̞ɑɾ.t̪ʊ]

[lɑˈħɑɾ.t̪ʊ]

From Old Galician-Portuguese lagarto, from Vulgar Latin *lacartum, from Latin lacertus.

(cooking) pork cut, using the iliocostalis muscle between the spine and loin


canon

canons (plural)
cânon (alternative)
cânone (alternative)

canon (principle, literary works, prayer, religious law, music piece)


cabra

From Old Galician-Portuguese cabra (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin capra.

Helicolenus dactylopterus
Wikispecies:Helicolenus dactylopterus

blackbelly rosefish (Helicolenus dactylopterus)

(in the plural) stains in the legs caused by excessive heat

Serranus cabrilla
Wikispecies:Serranus cabrilla


mexicano

gl-noun

mexicano m (plural mexicanos, feminine mexicana, feminine plural mexicanas)

mexicanos (plural)
mexicana (feminine)
mexicanas (feminine plural)


rego

From the interaction of diverse sources: Latin rigāre (“to water”), Paleo-Hispanic *reku ("river"), and Proto-Celtic *ɸrikā (“furrow”). Compare Old Breton rec (“furrow”).

furrow (a trench cut in the soil, as when plowed in order to plant a crop)


nós

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.


verme

From Old Galician-Portuguese vermen, vermẽẽ (13th c., Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Proto-Romance *verminem, from Latin vermis. Compare Portuguese verme.

Non sei qué xuncras traguía na moleira o Seor Pedro, que o vin no outro onte carreirando, como un neno, e axuntando aos seus veciños, pra que onde ao seu palleiro fosen axiña a agoardá-lo; Eu non sei si un formigueiro de vermes lle boligaban entre os miolos dos sesos, pois semellaba a un doente, pro casi arrincando os pelos de debaixo da monteira, sin ton, nin son, e sin xeito; Eu non sei qué lle proía, eu non sei, si tiña o demo; porque os folgos eran fogos e os ollos dous candeeiros, e a cara toda prigada, amostrando os seus chavellos coa boca de un palmo aberta, babexado o fuciñeiro, parecía un estraloxe, un estraloxe de un vello

1862, Manuel Magariños, Ferrocarril Compostelano:

I don't know what damned thing was bringing in his head Mr. Pedro, whom I saw the day before yesterday running around, as a kid, and gathering his neighbours asking them to come promptly to his barn and wait for him; I don't know if a colony of worms was scampering around the center of his brains, because he looked as a madman, almost pulling out the hair from under the hat, without rhyme of reason, and without care; I don't know what was itching him, I don't know if he was possessed by a demon; because his breath was fire and the eyes two lamps, and the face all folded, showing his fangs with mouth open wide, the snout drooling; he looked as a ravel, an old man's ravel


cantar

From Old Galician-Portuguese cantar, from Latin cantāre.

Sementar sementarei
loguiño de crarear
en tanto no pobo medre

1978, Fuxan os Ventos, Sementeira (song)

Sowing I'll sow
soon after it clears
as long as among the people grow
a child, an old man and a song


portal

From Old Galician-Portuguese portal (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Medieval Latin portalis, from Latin porta (“gate”).

seendo o Conçello da dicta vila da Crunna ajuntado por pregon en o portal da iglesia de Santiago da dicta vila. segundo que an de huso et de costume

1395, M. González Garcés, editor, Historia de La Coruña. Edad Media, A Coruña: Caixa Galicia, page 555:

being the Council of the aforementioned town of A Coruña reunited by announcement at the portal of the church of Saint James of the mentioned town, as they have as customary usage

que façades ẽna dita cassa dous portaes cõ súas portas et alpénderes contra a rrúa do Çiqueello

1390, M. L. Méndez Fernández, editor, Contribución ó estudio dun libro das Tenzas da Catedral de Santiago. Edición crítica e estudio dos folios 1 a 27., Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, page 64:

you must build at that house two porches, with their doors and their roofs, on the Sequelo street

Manda o conçello et os alcalldes, regidores et procuradores desta villa da crunna de parte de noso sennor el Rey et do dito conçello da dita villa et porque asi he ordenança antiga que nehunus çapateiros et outras quasquer personas que non sejan çapateiros et vezinnos et moradores da dita villa et en ela non pagan talla con os outros çapateiros vezjnnos da dita villa que non son confrades dos çapateiros asi como os çapateiros de portal, que non vsen dos ditos ofiçios de çapateria nen vendan çapatos nen botas nen outro calçado de coiro en publico nen ascondido nen los ponnan en tendas nen portaes nen anden a vender por la dita villa et pescaria dela Et desde Palavea et media legoa da villa enderredor a villa saluo se os venderen a engros aos ditos çapateiros que viuen et moran na dita villa ou eles os consentiren vender en seus portaes.

1434, M. González Garcés, editor, Historia de La Coruña. Edad Media, A Coruña: Caixa Galicia, page 609:

the council and mayors, councilmen and agents of this town of A Coruña, on behalf of our lord the King and of this town council, and because so it is an old ordinance; that no shoemaker or whichever other person who is not a shoemaker and neighbour and dweller of the said town and in it they did not pay contributions with the other shoemakers neighbours of the said town and which are not a brother of the guild of the shoemakers, as well as the shoemakers who work at their porches; that they should not use of this office of shoemaking nor should they sell shoes nor boots nor any other leather footwear, nor publicly, nor in hiding, nor should they put them in shops nor porches nor should they go selling them around this town and its fishery [outskirts neighbourhood], nor from Palavea and half a league around this town, except if they sell them in bulk to the said shoemakers that live and dwell in the said town or if they let them sell at their porches


querer

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese querer, from Latin quaerere (“seek, look for, desire”). Compare Portuguese querer.


corda

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese corda (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin chorda (“cord”), from Ancient Greek χορδή (khordḗ, “string of gut, the string of a lyre”).

der

(music) string, cord (of a musical instrument)


pluma

Learned borrowing from Latin plūma (“feather”) (Latin pl- normally becomes ch- in inherited Galician); compare the semi-learned Old Galician-Portuguese pruma. See also chumazo, which was popularly inherited and underwent the usual sound changes.


ladro

gl-noun

ladro m (plural ladros, feminine ladra, feminine plural ladras)

ladros (plural)
ladra (feminine)
ladras (feminine plural)


lago

From Old Galician-Portuguese lago, from Latin lacus (“lake”), from Proto-Italic *lakus, from Proto-Indo-European *lókus (“lake, pool”).


lingua

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese lingua, from Latin lingua. Compare Portuguese língua.

inh+

botar a lingua a pacer

(countable) language (a body of words, and set of methods of combining them (called a grammar), understood by a community and used as a form of communication)


historia

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese estoria (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), borrowed from Latin historia, from Ancient Greek ἱστορία (historía).

history (the branch of knowledge that studies the past)

history (a set of events involving an entity)

history (a record or narrative description of past events)

story (a sequence of real or fictional events)


natura

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese natura, borrowed from Latin nātūra.


alma

From Old Galician-Portuguese alma, from Latin anima. The dialectal form ialma contains an antihiatic sandhi semi-vowel generated in the usual expression a alma, "the soul". Doublet of ánima.

Ay Jan cata non te enfermes, nen sentencies con malicia, cata que a yalma perdes.

1594, anonymous author, Entremés dos pastores:

Oh, Xan, look, don't get sick, or sentence with malice; watch out, because you are losing the soul


santo

gl-noun

santo m (plural santos, feminine santa, feminine plural santas)

santos (plural)
santa (feminine)
santas (feminine plural)

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese santo, from Latin sānctus, perfect passive participle of sanciō (“consecrate, appoint as sacred”), from Proto-Indo-European *sān- (“healthy, happy”).


africano

gl-noun

africano m (plural africanos, feminine africana, feminine plural africanas)

africanos (plural)
africana (feminine)
africanas (feminine plural)

From Old Galician-Portuguese africano, borrowed from Latin āfricānus (“African”).


pera

From Old Galician-Portuguese pera (13th century, Alfonso X), from Vulgar Latin *pira, from the plural of Latin pirum, reanalyzed as a feminine singular.


elefante

elefante m (plural elefantes, feminine elefanta, feminine plural elefantas)

elefantes (plural)
elefanta (feminine)
elefantas (feminine plural)
alefante (alternative)

Etymology tree
Ancient Greek ἐλέφᾱς (eléphās)bor.
Latin elephāslbor.
Old Galician-Portuguese elefante
Galician elefante
From Old Galician-Portuguese elefante, borrowed from Latin elephās, elephantis (“elephant”), from Ancient Greek ἐλέφᾱς (eléphās, “elephant, ivory”).


marzo

marzos (plural)
março (alternative)
marzal (alternative)

From Old Galician-Portuguese março, from Latin (mensis) mārtius.


biblioteca

Learned borrowing from Latin bibliothēca, from Ancient Greek βιβλιοθήκη (bibliothḗkē, “library”).

der

Nas vacacións aproveito para ir ler á biblioteca.

I take the opportunity to go read at the library in the holidays.


heterosexual

gl-noun

heterosexual m or f by sense (plural heterosexuais)


neve

From Old Galician-Portuguese neve (“snow”) (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Vulgar Latin *nĕvem, alteration of Latin nivem.


sono

sono m (usually uncountable, plural sonos)

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese sono, from Latin somnus, from Proto-Indo-European *swépnos, from *swep- + *-nós.


ritmo

Learned borrowing from Latin rhythmus, from Ancient Greek ῥυθμός (rhuthmós), from ῥέω (rhéō, “I flow”).


lobo

gl-noun

lobo m (plural lobos, feminine loba, feminine plural lobas)

lobos (plural)
loba (feminine)
lobas (feminine plural)

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese lobo, from Latin lupus. Compare Portuguese and Spanish lobo.


variable

variables (plural)
variável (alternative)
variábel (alternative)


vela

From Old Galician-Portuguese vela, an early borrowing from Vulgar Latin *vēla, from the plural of Latin vēlum. Compare the inherited Old Portuguese vea.


vela

From Old Galician-Portuguese [Term?], from Latin vigilia, or back-formation from velar.


araña

From Old Galician-Portuguese aranna (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin arānea. Probably a doublet of raña.
Cognate with Portuguese aranha and Spanish araña.

1348, J. Méndez Pérez & al. (eds.), El monasterio de San Salvador de Chantada, Santiago de Compostela: I. Padre Sarmiento, page 327

the life in this world is but the web of the spider, that breaks as soon as something touches it

a vida deste mundo non he mays que a tea da aranna que tanto que a tange alguna coussa, logo he quebrantada


cinta

From Old Galician-Portuguese cinta (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Late Latin cincta, plural of cinctum, variant of cinctus.

It. mando que todas las doas que eu ouuer a o tempo de miña morte assy adubos de panos como yrilandas [grilandas] e relicas [pelicas] e cintas e outras qualesquer doas que eu aia e sse pola uentura estouuere delas ou todas en penora mando que sse tiren e sse den a o prior ffrey Johan nunes con todos los panos de uestir

1347, Antonio López Ferreiro, editor, Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática, Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 280:

Item: I order that every trinket that I may have at the time of my death, either clothing ornaments, as well as garlands, pelts, ribbons, and any other trinket that I may have -and in case that they were pawned I command that they should be redeemed- and they should give them to the prior, the friar Johan Nunes, with all of my clothes

It. enna mia hucha que se no Tesouro I cinta de prata de pano de seda verde et outra cinta ancha de prata gornida de prata en coyro de lobo.

1375, Antonio López Ferreiro, editor, Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática, Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 385:

Item: in my chest which in inside the treasury, a silver band made of green silk cloth, and another band embroidered in silver made of wolf's hide

(nautical) upper board of the planking of a ship

Phalaris arundinacea
Wikispecies:Phalaris arundinacea

reed canary grass (Phalaris arundinacea)


constitución

constitucións (plural)
constituizón (alternative)
constituzón (alternative)
constituiçom (alternative)
constituição (alternative)

First attested in the 13th century as constituçon, constituyçon. From Latin cōnstitūtiō, cōnstitūtiōnem.

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 galego:

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.

A Constetucion é a mellor ley que podemos desear. Somos libres pois que non reconocemos basallaxê. Temos goberno moy bó, unas Cortes que en nome do pobo poden tanto como Rey, po lo que é craro que nos mandamos tanto como o Rey.

1822, anonymous author, A Parola Polêteca:

The Constitution is the best law we can look forward to. We are free because we don't acknowledge vassalage. We have quite a good government; a parliament that, in the name of the people, is as powerful as the King; and so it is evident that we are as powerful as the King.


tulla

tullas (plural)
tulha (alternative)
tuña (alternative)

Unknown. Documented since the 10th century in local Medieval Latin charters as tulia; unlikely from Latin tubula (“small tube”) which originates tolva. Compare Portuguese tulha.


GPS

Global Positioning System
Global Positioning System

(cartography) GPS, Global Positioning System


hotel

Borrowed from French hôtel, from Latin hospitāle.

Hotel de cinco estrelas..


sa

Either from Proto-Germanic *saliz (“house, hall”), or from Proto-Germanic *sēaną (“to sow”).


andar

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese andar, from Early Medieval Latin andāre, of uncertain origin.

1833, Florencio Pol, Espello de deputados, page 4 (in Ramón Mariño Paz (2008), Papés d'emprenta condenada. A escrita galega entre 1797 e 1846.)

arriving there I found his house, which is just straight down the promenade, on the same floor I asked for the lord, but at the moment I saw him coming down

ó chegar á súa casa fun dar, que é indo polo cantón sin torcer, no mesmo andar pregunto polo Señor pro mui logo o vin baixar

sol [...] tanto he oseu lume et tam grande o poder (dos) seus rrayos que por donde el vay tolle áás outras planetas o andar

c. 1300, R. Martínez López, editor, General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV, Oviedo: Publicacións de Archivum, page 183:

the Sun … it is so large its light and so big the power of its rays that wherever it goes it takes from the other planets its walk

Éche un andar miudiño, miudiño, miudiño, o que eu traio. Que eu traio unha borracheira, de viño, c'auga non bebo

It's a slow, slow pace which brings me. Since I'm drunk of wine, 'cause I don't drink water


saio

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Vulgar Latin *sagium, from Latin sagum, cognate of Ancient Greek σάγος (ságos); probably from Paleo-Hispanic (Apian wrote that the word was considered proper of the Celts of Iberia) and ultimately from Celtic.

Afonso:
E como està o afillado?
Christobo:
Esse jà quer ir a Escola,
pero porque non tèn sayo
està decote na Eyra
para escorrentar o Gando.

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

Afonso:
How is doing my godchild?
Christobo:
He already want to go to school,
but since he has no robe
is all the time in the field
for driving away the livestock.

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


vento

From Old Galician-Portuguese vento, from Latin ventus.


fígado

fígados (plural)
fédago (alternative)
fégado (alternative)

[ˈfi.ɣ̞ɑ.ð̞ʊ]

[ˈfi.ɣ̞ɑ.ð̞ʊ]

[ˈfi.ħɑ.ð̞ʊ]

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Late Latin fīcātum (“liver”), from Latin iecur fīcātum (“fig-stuffed liver”).


carta

From Old Galician-Portuguese carta, from Latin charta, from Ancient Greek χάρτης (khártēs, “papyrus, paper”).


punto

From Old Galician-Portuguese punto, from Latin punctus. Cognate with Spanish punto, Portuguese ponto, and Catalan punt.


coma

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese coma (“mane”), from Latin coma (“hair of the head”), from Ancient Greek κόμη (kómē, “hair”).


coma

Learned borrowing from Latin comma, from Ancient Greek κόμμα (kómma), from κόπτω (kóptō, “I cut”).


coma

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κῶμα (kôma, “deep sleep”).


escritor

gl-noun

escritor m (plural escritores, feminine escritora, feminine plural escritoras)

escritores (plural)
escritora (feminine)
escritoras (feminine plural)

From Old Galician-Portuguese [Term?], from Latin scriptor, scriptōrem.


fronte

From Old Galician-Portuguese fronte, from Latin frontem, accusative of frōns.


terzo

From Old Galician-Portuguese terço (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin tertius (“third”). Cognate with Portuguese terço and Spanish tercio.

third (one of three equal parts of a whole)

(historical, military) tercio (a type of military formation used in the early modern age)


quinto

quintos (plural)
5º (alternative abbreviation)
5ª (alternative abbreviation)


nono

nonos (plural)
9º (alternative abbreviation)
9ª (alternative abbreviation)


alcohol

alcohois (plural)
alcol (alternative)
álcool (alternative)


memoria

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese memoria, from Latin memoria (“memory”), from memor (“mindful, remembering”) + -ia. Cognate with Portuguese memória.

inh+

de memoria

memoria comprensiva

memoria fotográfica

Ten unha memoria prodixiosa: a súa cabeza rexistra todo.

He has a prodigious memory; his head records everything.

Disque os elefantes teñen moita memoria.

They say elephants have a lot of memory.

(uncountable) memory (the ability of the brain to record information or impressions with the facility of recalling them later at will.)

Nos últimos vinte anos, non hai memoria dun feito semellante a ese.

In the last twenty years, there is no memory of a fact similar to that.

Fixeron unha homenaxe para honrar a memoria do falecido.

They did a tribute to honor the memory of the deceased.

É incrible, ten unha memoria fotográfica.

It’s amazing, he has a photographic memory.

Falo de memoria, non o sei exactamente.

I speak from memory; I don’t know exactly.

Recitou os reis españois de memoria.

He recited the Spanish kings by heart/memory.

Non aprendas a lección de memoria.

a memory (a record of a thing or an event stored and available for later use by the organism.)

memoria auxiliar

memoria central

memoria de acceso secuencial

memoria principal

posición de memoria

memoria USB

memoria tobo

Mercaron un ordenador novo con moita memoria.

They bought a new computer with a lot of memory.

Unha máquina de escribir con memoria

(computing) a memory (the part of a computer that stores variable executable code or data (RAM) or unalterable executable code or default data (ROM).)

Unha memoria dun proxecto de investigación.

a writing to inform someone about a matter of importance

(chiefly in the plural) a list of acts, works or economic results carried out by a company or corporation, included in a document, which is made available to partners or interested parties

memoria de licenciatura

(chiefly in the plural) a list of expenses incurred in a business in an economic period

(chiefly in the plural) a memoir (an autobiography; a book describing the personal experiences of an author or a biography; a book describing the experiences of a subject from personal knowledge of the subject or from sources with personal knowledge of the subject.)


madrileño

gl-noun

madrileño m (plural madrileños, feminine madrileña, feminine plural madrileñas)

madrileños (plural)
madrileña (feminine)
madrileñas (feminine plural)
madrilenho (alternative)


abella

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese abella, from Latin apicula. First attested in the 13th century.


paxaro

gl-noun

paxaro m (plural paxaros, feminine paxara, feminine plural paxaras)

paxaros (plural)
paxara (feminine)
paxaras (feminine plural)
páxaro (alternative)
pásaro (alternative)
pájaro (alternative)
pássaro (alternative)

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese passaro, from Vulgar Latin *passarum, from Latin passer, from Proto-Indo-European *peth₂-.
Cognate with Portuguese pássaro and Spanish pájaro.

etymon

bird, specifically a passeriform (perching) bird

passerine (any bird of the order Passeriformes)


paxaro

paxaros (plural)
páxaro (alternative)
pásaro (alternative)
pájaro (alternative)
pássaro (alternative)


sílaba

Learned borrowing from Latin syllaba, from Ancient Greek συλλαβή (sullabḗ).


sebe

From Latin saepem (“hedge, fence”), from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂ip- (“to cram, fence”).

der

acharon no herdamento desa grana de Lamas estaquas chantadas et divisoes feytas et sebes deribadas

1316, Miguel Romaní Martinez, editor, La colección diplomática de Santa María de Oseira, volume 2, Santiago: Tórculo Edicións, page 32:

they found, in the lands of that farm of Lamas, grounded stakes and [new] divisions and overthrown hedges


fame

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Vulgar Latin *fam(i)ne(m) or more likely *famen, from Latin famēs (“hunger”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰH- (“to disappear”). Cognate with Portuguese fome, French faim, Italian fame and Romanian foame.

onde eu moytas chagas et deostos et pelejas et escarnos et caenturas et cãsaço et fame et frio et moytos outros traballos padeçin

1390, Pensado Tomé, edited by José Luís, Os Miragres de Santiago. Versión gallega del Códice latino del siglo XII atribuido al papa Calisto I, Madrid: C.S.I.C, page 136:

here, where I have suffered many sores and insults and fights and derision and fever and tiredness and hunger and cold and so many other pains

eno tempo da abadesa Donna Moor Peres, que foy ante do anno da grande fame

1419, Pérez Rodríguez, F. (ed.), "San Jorge de Codeseda: un monasterio femenino bajomedieval", in Studia Monastica (33), page 84

in times of the abbess Lady Mor Pérez, which was the year before the great famine


dedo

From Old Galician-Portuguese dedo, from Latin digitus. Cognate with Portuguese dedo, Spanish dedo and Catalan dit.


polaco

gl-noun

polaco m (plural polacos, feminine polaca, feminine plural polacas)

polacos (plural)
polaca (feminine)
polacas (feminine plural)


profeta

profeta m (plural profetas, feminine profetisa, feminine plural profetisas)

profetas (plural)
profetisa (feminine)
profetisas (feminine plural)

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese profeta, borrowed from Latin prophēta, borrowed from Ancient Greek προφήτης (prophḗtēs), from προ- (pro-) + φημί (phēmí) + -της (-tēs).


arqueiro

From Old Galician-Portuguese arqueiro (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Vulgar Latin *arcārius, alteration of arcuārius (“of bows”), from Latin arcus (“bow”). Equivalent to arco + -eiro.


padre

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese padre, from Latin patrem, accusative singular of pater (“father”), from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr.


pasta

First attested in the 15th century. From Latin pasta.

filla o vinagre ben forte e a greda alva muda et pouco de sal ben mundo, e amasa todo moi ben ata que se faça ende ũa pasta mole.

1409, G. Pérez Barcala, editor, A tradución galega do "Liber de medicina equorum" de Joradanus Ruffus, Santiago de Compostela: USC, page 172:

take a strong vinegar and ground white clay and a little salt, finely ground, and mix very well everything till it becames a soft paste


arco

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese arco, from Latin arcus, from Proto-Italic *arkuos.

etymon

each one of the circles of a water wheel


pulga

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese pulga, from the hypothetical Vulgar Latin *pūlica, from Latin pūlex (“flea”).

inh+

flea (a small, wingless, parasitic insect of the order Siphonaptera, renowned for its bloodsucking habits and jumping abilities)


faba

From Old Galician-Portuguese fava, from Latin faba.

inflammatory sickness of the mouth of the horses


colo

From Old Galician-Portuguese colo, from Latin collum (“neck”). Compare Portuguese colo and Spanish cuello.

(anatomy) neck; collum (part of body connecting the head and the trunk)

(anatomy) neck (part of a bone that connects its head to its body)

(anatomy) cervix (necklike portion of any part)

Et por esta razõ sempre andou en andas et en colo dos omes ata que morreu.

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 690:

And for this reason he always went in stretchers and in the arms of men until he died

1439, X. Ferro Couselo (ed.), A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI. 2 vols. Vigo: Galaxia, page 419

Assize of the pots: Item, they ordered that any person who brings a load of pots from the outside for selling inside this city, that they shall pay two white coins for each load; and a white coin for a sack; and for the lot that they carry in their arms, a coin; an two coins for each amphora

Sisa das olas: Iten, ordenaron que qual quer persona que trouxer carga d'olas de fora parte a vender aa dita çidade, que page de cada carga d'olas, duas brancas e de un costal d'olas, hua branca, e do feixe das olas que trouxer en collo, un diñeyro, e de cada qántara, dous diñeiros

Non leves a nena no colo, deixa que ande.

Don't carry the little girl in your arms, let her walk.

torso, shoulders and arms of a standing person


fin

From Old Galician-Portuguese fin (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin fīnis.

Cantigas de Santa Maria
Latin language
Old Galician-Portuguese language


mesa

From Old Galician-Portuguese mesa (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Vulgar Latin mēsa, from Latin mēnsa.

E pois eu doze perdizes,
e de polos ducia e media
lle hei de lebar se Deus quer,
e se podo vnha Tenreyra,
por ser prato regalado
que se estima en calquer mesa.

1707, Salvador Francisco Roel, (Please provide the book title or journal name):

Then I twelve partridges
and a dozen and a half chickens
I ought to take, God willing,
and if I can a calf [veal]
because it is a delightful dish
that is appreciated in any table.


segundo

segundos (plural)
2º (alternative)
2ª (alternative)

From Old Galician-Portuguese segundo, from Latin secundus, probably taken as a semi-learned term.

(geometry) second of arc (angle measure)


gato

gl-noun

gato m (plural gatos, feminine gata, feminine plural gatas)

gatos (plural)
gata (feminine)
gatas (feminine plural)

From Old Galician-Portuguese gato, from Late Latin cattus. See cat for more.

Et auia muy grã mortaydade ẽnos poboos da vila con fome, et con coyta comiã os gatos et os caes et os mures

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 528:

And they had a big mortality among the people of the town with hunger, and with grief they ate the cats and the dogs and the mice


vez

From Old Galician-Portuguese vez (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin vicis (“change, alternation”).

Non vistes no mato a vez que un xovenco perdeu súa nai , e dá muitos berros?

Didn't you see in the bush the time a youngster lost his mother, and he screamed a lot?


palabra

From Old Galician-Portuguese palavra, with hyperthesis from earlier paravla, from Late Latin, from Latin parabola (“comparison; later, speech”), from Ancient Greek παραβολή (parabolḗ, “comparison; parable”). Doublet of parábola and parola.

der

mando que paguem a gomez ballo quanto el diser por sua palaura sem juramento quelle deuo

1375, A. López Ferreiro, editor, Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática, Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 381:

I order that they should pay Gómez Ballo whatever he say by his word that I owe him, no oath needed


adulto

gl-noun

adulto m (plural adultos, feminine adulta, feminine plural adultas)

adultos (plural)
adulta (feminine)
adultas (feminine plural)

Espectáculo para adultos


alto

From Old Galician-Portuguese alto, from Latin altus. This form is probably semi-learned or influenced by learned orthography, as with Portuguese alto and Spanish alto. Cf. also the now archaic form outo, which was probably popularly inherited from an unattested hypothetical *outo, present also in place names as Montouto (“High-hill”), from the same Latin word (compare also Old Spanish oto).


caos

From Latin chaos, from Ancient Greek χάος (kháos).


húngaro

húngaro m (plural húngaros, feminine húngara, feminine plural húngaras)

húngaros (plural)
húngara (feminine)
húngaras (feminine plural)


catalán

catalán m (plural cataláns, feminine catalá, feminine plural catalás)

cataláns (plural)
catalá (feminine)
catalás (feminine plural)
catalám (alternative)
catalão (alternative)

From Catalan català (adjective), Catalunya (noun).

Catalan (native or inhabitant of Catalonia) (usually male)


catalán

catalám (alternative)
catalão (alternative)


agro

From Old Galician-Portuguese agro, from Latin ager, agrum, from Proto-Italic *agros, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵros.

enclosed farmland usually comprising a single property


ala

Learned borrowing from Latin āla. Compare the inherited á.


chaqueta

Víndelle ver a chaqueta que é nova.


vulgar

vulgar (the vernacular tongue or common language of a country)


placenta

Borrowed from New Latin placenta, from Latin placenta (“cake”), from Ancient Greek πλακόεντα (plakóenta), accusative of πλακόεις (plakóeis, “flat”).


cámara

From Old Galician-Portuguese camara (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin camara, from Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamára, “a vaulted chamber”).

der

chamber
namely, the main bedroom of a house

the room used for deliberation by a legislature

(firearms) the area holding the ammunition round

chamber
the area holding the ammunition round

ítem mando que dentro enas ditas casas de miña morada seja apartadamente outra Cámara de libraría en que sejan postos todos meus libros en rroda et almarios

c. 1450, A. López Ferreiro, editor, Historia de la Santa A. M. Iglesia de Santiago de Compostela, VII, p. 136:

Item, I order that, inside my houses where I reside, they build another chamber for library, and that they place in it all my books around in shelves


alba

From Old Galician-Portuguese alva (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Vulgar Latin *alba, the feminine of albus (“white”). Cognate with Portuguese alva.


terra

From Old Galician-Portuguese terra, from Latin terra. Cognate with Portuguese terra, Catalan terra, and Spanish tierra.

(in the plural) real estate possesions or heritage


albino

gl-noun

albino m (plural albinos, feminine albina, feminine plural albinas)

albinos (plural)
albina (feminine)
albinas (feminine plural)


lista

Already attested in local Latin documents of the 9th century. Probably from Late Latin or Vulgar Latin *lista, of Germanic origin, from Frankish *līsta, from Proto-Germanic *līstǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *leizd (“band, border”).

der

tomarõ hũ pano moy bõo et moy preçado, a listas d'ouro muy fremosas

1370, Ramón Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 469:

they took a very good and very valued cloth, with very beauty bands of gold


para

Deverbal from parar (“to prepare”). Cognate with Portuguese apara.


elixir

From Medieval Latin elixir, from Arabic اَلْإِكْسِير (al-ʔiksīr), from Ancient Greek ξηρίον (xēríon, “medicinal powder”), from ξηρός (xērós, “dry”).

اَلْإِكْسِير


ira

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese ira (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin ira.


silva

From Old Galician-Portuguese silva, from Latin silva (“forest”).

vijã grande[s] lumes de candeas arder de noyte et de dia en huũ monte muy espeso de muytas aruores et siluas, a oyto mjlias de Yria

1460, José Antonio Souto Cabo, editor, Crónica de Santa María de Íria, Santiago: Ediciós do Castro, page 101:

they saw large candle fires, burning day and night, in a very close forest, of trees and bambles, eight milles from Iria

Tente, silva; non me prendas, que n'estou n'a miña tèrra (traditional song)

1884, Marcial Valladares Núñez, Diccionario gallego-castellano, s.v. silva

Hold yourself, bramble, don't catch me, 'cos I'm not in my country


virus

Learned borrowing from Latin vīrus (“poison, slime, venom”).


metro

Borrowed from French mètre, from Ancient Greek μέτρον (métron, “measure”).

der

(measuring instruments) tape measure, measuring tape

(poetry, music) metre (the rhythm or measure in verse and musical composition)


metro

Borrowed from French métro, clipping of métropolitain.


abra

Attested since 1440. Borrowed from Old French havre, from Middle Dutch havene, from Proto-Germanic *habnō (“harvour, haven”).

en todo o porto et abra desta dita uilla

1440, Miguel González Garcés, editor, Historia de La Coruña. Edad Media, A Coruña: Caixa Galicia, page 619:

in the whole harbor and bay of said town


aba

Uncertain. Cognate with Portuguese aba, Spanish álabe, French aube, Romanian aripă.


porta

From Old Galician-Portuguese porta, from Latin porta.

quando a meterõ ena vila, nõ pode caber pela porta, et ouuerõ a tirar as portas et a enãchar a entrada

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 886:

when they took it to the town, it couldn't pass through the gate, and they had to remove the doors and widen the entrance


chá

From Old Galician-Portuguese chãa, from Latin plana.


rancor

Attested since the 15th century. From Old Galician-Portuguese (compare Old Galicia-Portuguese rancura, 13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin rancor.

estauan en moytas cartas de scomoion et testemoyos et eran en grande descordia et anduan en odios et rancores

1446, M. González Garcés, editor, Historia de La Coruña. Edad Media, A Coruña: Caixa Galicia, page 635:

they were in many excommunicaton charters and litigations and they were in large discord and hate and rancor

1612, Pedro Vázquez de Neira, "Soneto", in Gómez Tónel, Exequias

that rancor that eats away and cracks through you


poro

Attested since 1409. From Latin porus, from Ancient Greek πόρος (póros, “passage”).

et esto asy posto amansa a door et abre os poros et faz as huñas humidas para se tallaren mellor

1409, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Tratado de Albeitaria, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 151:

and this, put like that, tames the pain and opens the pores and makes the hoof moist so it can be cut easily


mel

From Old Galician-Portuguese mel, from Vulgar Latin *melem m or f, from Latin mel n.


caixa

From Old Galician-Portuguese cajxa~qajxa (compare Portuguese caixa), probably borrowed from Catalan caixa, from Latin capsa. Compare Spanish caja.

iten outras duas cruzes; a hua pequena, en que esta lyno domini, cuberta de follas douro, que adoran esta feyra mayor, et esta gardada en hua cayxa de madeyro; et a outra cruz mays grande, en que esta haun cruçifiçio con duas omajees, et dous escudos de armas de bendaña, et outros dous escudos con dous leoos, et o pee byrtado dela, et he toda de prata dourada

1426, A. López Ferreiro (ed.), Historia de la Santa A. M. Iglesia de Santiago de Compostela, XI, nº Adicións-1.1, pages 79-92

item, two more crosses: a small one, in which is "lyno domini", covered with gold leaf, that they adore this major feast, and is kept in a wooden box; another larger cross, in which is a crucifix with two images, and two coat of arms of the Bendaña family, and another two coats with two lions, and its foot is broken, and is made of gilded silver


aire

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese aire (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin aēr, aeris.

inh+

Et algũu mouro astroso, que sabe fazer estas cousas, fezo aquela uisom vijr pelo aere por nos espantar cõ esta arteria.

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 108:

And some despicable Moor, who knows how to do this things, made this vision that came by the air, to scare us with this trick


pelo

From Latin pilus. As with the Portuguese cognate pelo, the preservation of single /l/ in intervocalic position is irregular and may be the result of analogy with cabelo < Latin capillus.


clan

from Irish clann (“offspring, children of the family”) and Scottish Gaelic clann, both from Old Irish cland, borrowed from Old Welsh plant, itself borrowed from Latin planta (“shoot, offspring”). Doublet of planta.


mar

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese mar, from Latin mare. Compare Portuguese mar.

inh+

Hoxe non saímos que hai moito mar

Today we are not going, there is too much swell

(figuratively) sea; vast number or quantity


idiota

Learned borrowing from Latin idiōta, from Ancient Greek ἰδιώτης (idiṓtēs, “layman”) from ἴδιος (ídios, “private”).


hora

From Old Galician-Portuguese ora, a semi-learned borrowing from Latin hōra (“hour”). Doublet of ora.

Que hora é?

regular or designated time for doing something


transversal

From Medieval Latin trānsversālis, from Latin trānsversus.


tren

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.

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 tackles of ships that he had in panwn for 600 mor.


tren

19th century. Ultimately from French train.

a connected sequence of things (in time or space)

(transport, railway) train (line of connected cars or carriages)


occidental

gl-noun

occidental m or f by sense (plural occidentais)

occidentais (plural)
ocidental (alternative)

[ɔk.θi.ð̞ɛn̪ˈt̪ɑɫ]

[ɔk.θi.ð̞ɛn̪ˈt̪ɑɫ]

[ɔk.si.ð̞ɛn̪ˈt̪ɑɫ]

[ɔk.θi.ð̞en̪ˈt̪ɑɫ]

[ɔk.θi.ð̞en̪ˈt̪ɑɫ]


año

año m (plural años, feminine aña, feminine plural añas)

años (plural)
aña (feminine)
añas (feminine plural)
anha (alternative)

Attested since the 14th century. From Latin agnus.


mes

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese mes, from Latin mensis. Compare Portuguese mês and Spanish mes.


azo

Perhaps from Old Occitan aize (“comfort”), from Latin adiacēns. Compare French aise and Italian agio.
Alternatively, from Proto-Celtic *anatyom (“life; spirit, soul”).


trema

tremas (plural)
trémbora (alternative)
trémoa (alternative)
trémoga (alternative)
trémora (alternative)

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


ave

From Old Galician-Portuguese ave, from Latin avis, avem, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwis.


lapis

Learned borrowing from Latin lapis (“stone”).

lbor

E a letra con que escribía nun papel cun lapis atado nunha silla.

And the handwriting he used to write on a piece of paper with a pencil tied to a chair.


nome

From Old Galician-Portuguese nome, from Latin nōmen, nōminis, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥.

(grammar) a noun, a substantive or adjective


val

13th century. From Old Galician-Portuguese vale, from Latin vallis, vallem.

c1350, Kevin M. Parker (ed.), Historia Troyana. Santiago: Instituto Padre Sarmiento, page 122

As they clashed, they shouted and cried so aloud that the valleys resounded.

Et ao ferir, braadarõ et deron tan grãdes vozes que os vales rretenyam.


vara

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese vara (“rod”) attested in the 13th century Cantigas de Santa Maria, from Latin vāra (“fork”). Cognate with Catalan, Portuguese, and Spanish vara.

inh+

que den a uos Eluira Perez en uossa vida de tres en tres annos çinquo varas de valacyna noua ou os dineiros para ella, quantos ella custar enna tenda

1335, M. Lucas Álvarez, P. Lucas Domínguez, editors, El monasterio de San Clodio do Ribeiro en la Edad Media: estudio y documentos, Sada / A Coruña: Edicións do Castro, page 463:

they should give you, Elvira Pérez, throughout your life each three years, five yards of new Valencian cloth or the money for them, whatever it costs in the store

(historical, measure) vara, especially as a cloth yard, a former unit of length


corno

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese corno, from Latin cornu (“horn”). Cognate with Portuguese corno and Spanish cuerno.

Et os hũus tãgíã cornos et os outros pipas, et os que estauã perlos muros da vila, algũus deles deostauã et dezíã moyto mal aos de fora.

1370, R. Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana., A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 378:

And some were playing horns and others pipes, and of the ones that were by the walls of the town, some insulted and told many mean things to the ones outside

Sobre un tapiz dua mesa
mais louro do que é o carbon
hay procesos, e un tinteiro
feito de corno de boy.

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

Over the cloth of a table,
blacker than coal,
there are lawsuits and an inkwell
made with ox horn

Et moy rregeo tãgeo o corno que pero que era de marfil que o fendeu cõ o bafo, et al quebrantouselle as veas do pescoço et os nerueos

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 136:

And very strongly he blew the horn, but since it was made of ivory he broke it with the puff, and also he broke the veins of the neck and the nerves

Oryctes nasicornis
Wikispecies:Oryctes nasicornis

European rhinoceros beetle (Oryctes nasicornis)


antisemita

gl-noun

antisemita m or f by sense (plural antisemitas)


enigma

From Latin aenigma (“riddle”), from Ancient Greek αἴνιγμα (aínigma, “dark saying, riddle”).


saga

From the Old Norse saga, from Proto-Germanic *sagǭ.

an Old Norse (Icelandic) prose narrative, especially one dealing with family or social histories and legends

something with the qualities of such a saga; an epic, a long story


merda

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese merda, from Latin merda, from Proto-Italic *(s)merdā, from Proto-Indo-European *smerd-h₂- (“stench”).


bilabial

(phonetics) bilabial (a sound articulated with both lips)


langosta

[lɑŋˈɡos̺.t̪ɐ]

[lɑŋˈɡos̺.t̪ɐ]

[lɑŋˈħos̺.t̪ɐ]


latín

Gardaimo de adulazons
dos que obran polos seus fins,
gardaimo de mas latins
e peores cicerons

1775, Diego Antonio Cernadas y Castro, Eu non pensei, meu Farruco:

Guard him of the flatteries
of the ones who act for their own shake,
guard him of bad jargons
and worst cicerones


pinta

spot (a round or irregular patch on the surface of a thing having a different color)

salamander (a round or irregular patch on the surface of a thing having a different color)


lima

From Andalusian Arabic لِيمَة, from Arabic لَيْمُون (laymūn, “lemon, lime”).


lima

Attested since circa 1300. From Latin līma (“file”).

cõmo faz a lyma ao ferro, et a fornaz ao ouro que o purga et esmera et o faz puro et paresçe mellor, et cõmo faz outrosi o máále áá messe que a degrana em çeueyra et parte a palla do graão que e o mellor

c. 1300, R. Martínez López, editor, General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV, Oviedo: Archivum, page 271:

as the file does to iron, and the furnace to gold, that purges and cleans it and makes it pure and looks better; and also as the flail does to the harvest, that threshes it into sustenance and parts the straw and the grain, which is the best part


costa

From Old Galician-Portuguese costa, from Latin costa, from Proto-Indo-European *kost-.

ffazese nas costas do Cauallo hũa door que faz jnchaço grande et geerase daquel jnchaço carnes podres, et esto ven da sella que he maa ou do gran carrego que o preme moito, et aas vezes dura moito este jnchaço, fazese ende hũa peça de carne poçoenta que chega aos osos et sal vinino ou agooa.

1409, J. L. Pensado Tomé, Tratado de Albeitaria, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 119:

There appear in the sides of the horse an ache that produces a large swelling and that swelling creates rotten flesh, and this is because of the saddle, that is of poor quality, or from the large load that presses much, and sometimes this swelling last a long time; it then appears a piece of venomous flesh that reaches the bones and pus or water comes out

Dóenme as costas


velar

Learned borrowing from Latin vēlāris, corresponding to velo (“velum”) + -ar.

(phonetics) velar (a consonant articulated at the soft palate)


porco

From Old Galician-Portuguese porco, from Latin porcus, from Proto-Italic *porkos, from Proto-Indo-European *pórḱos (“young swine, young pig”).


madre

From Old Galician-Portuguese madre, from Latin māter, mātrem (“mother, matron”).

(fishing) main line (in longline fishing the central line to which the branch lines with baits are attached)


fresco

gl-noun

fresco m (plural frescos, feminine fresca, feminine plural frescas)

frescos (plural)
fresca (feminine)
frescas (feminine plural)

From Old Galician-Portuguese fresco (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Vulgar Latin *friscum.
Fresco, as a painting technique, was taken from Italian fresco.

(uncountable) cool moderate or refreshing state of cold

(uncountable, feminine) cool in the morning or in the evening (during the summer)


cereal

Borrowed from Latin Cereālis (“relating to Ceres”), from Cerēs (“goddess of agriculture”).


temporal

13th century. Learned borrowing from Latin temporālis, from tempus (“time”).


mortal

From Old Galician-Portuguese mortal, and their source Latin mortālis, from mors (“death”).

a mortal, a human (someone susceptible to death)


pote

15th century. Probably borrowed from Old French pot, from Proto-Germanic *puttaz (“pot, jar, tub”), from Proto-Indo-European *budn- (“a kind of vessel”). Doublet of pota.

der

Gomes de Sespooõ diso que nõ sabía máis, saluo que posera en súa casa Martj́n de Dorrõ hũu pote e que despoys fora por el e o leuara

1457, Fernando R. Tato Plaza, editor, Libro de notas de Álvaro Pérez, notario da Terra de Rianxo e Postmarcos, Santiago: Concello da Cultura Galega, page 182:

Gomez of Cespón said that he know nothing, except that Martin of Dorrón left a pot in his house, but that later he came for it and took it away

(cooking) a three feet iron container with lid


pote

Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *pūto (“swollen”), from Proto-Indo-European *bu- (“to swell”). Compare English pout.

bump or swelling in the head caused by an injury


mirar

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese mirar, from Latin mīrārī (“marvel at”).

inh+

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 a spell has entered her body, seeing how she changed all of the sudden: the pleasant smile fade from her mouth and the lively gaze fled from her eyes, clouded now by the wetness of the tears


máscara

Attested since circa 1800. Ultimately from Italian maschera.


autor

gl-noun

autor m (plural autores, feminine autora, feminine plural autoras)

autores (plural)
autora (feminine)
autoras (feminine plural)

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese autor, from Latin auctor, from Proto-Italic *auktōr, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewg-, from *h₂weg-.

etymon

author (originator or creator of a work)

(loosely) causer; originator; instigator


mosca

From Old Galician-Portuguese mosca, from Latin musca.


tonto

gl-noun

tonto m (plural tontos, feminine tonta, feminine plural tontas)

tontos (plural)
tonta (feminine)
tontas (feminine plural)

Unknown. Compare Asturian tontu, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese tonto, Romanian tont or tânt.


misa

From Old Galician-Portuguese missa, borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin missa, from Latin missum.


moa

From Medieval Galician proper moa, from Latin mola (“millstone”), from Proto-Indo-European *melh₂- (“to grind”). Cognate of Portuguese mó and of Spanish muela.

der

que lle quebrantaron duas moas de moer ferramenta, que sían armadas et encabalgadas

1448, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros, page 295:

that they broke two grindstones used for sharpening tools, that were framed and mounted


editor

gl-noun

editor m (plural editores, feminine editora, feminine plural editoras)

editores (plural)
editora (feminine)
editoras (feminine plural)


teo

Attested since circa 1750. From Latin taedium. Doublet of tedio.

(veterinary medicine, pathology) scrapie

(veterinary medicine, pathology) coenurosis


burel

First attested in the 13th century. From Old French burel.

mando a Pero Mouro I saya de ualencina et I capa de burel

1274, Ramón Lorenzo, Colección documental do mosteiro de Montederramo, doc. 355

I bequeath Pedro Mouro one robe of Valencian cloth and one cloak of burel


col

coles (plural)
coia (alternative)
couva (alternative)

From Old Galician-Portuguese col (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from an older unattested *coule, from Latin caulis. Cognate with Portuguese couve and Spanish col.

Brassica oleracea var. acephala#Translingual

collard; wild mustard, wild cabbage; kale; Brassica oleracea var. acephala


gitano

gitanos (plural)
gitana (feminine)
gitanas (feminine plural)


azul

From Old Galician-Portuguese azur (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Arabic لَازُوَرْد (lāzuward, “lapis lazuli”), from Persian لاجورد (lâjvard, “lapis lazuli”).

der

(countable and uncountable) azure, blue (colour)

rreluzíã cõtra o ssol os escudos, que erã pintados de ouro et de azur

1370, R. Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 308:

the shields, painted in gold and azure, glittered against the sun


desastre

disaster (unforeseen event causing great loss, etc.)


pala

unk

Obscure


tala

Perhaps from Latin tabula (compare falar < Latin fabulare).

wooden object that squeezes or pressures, not allowing free movement; splint

wooden tongs used for picking chestnuts burrs


cornada

goring (a wound inflicted by a horn, usually the horn of a bull in the context of bullfighting)