ruxerruxe

ruxerruxes (plural)
ruge-ruge (alternative)
ronxerronxe (alternative)
ruxe ruxe (alternative)
ruxe-ruxe (alternative)

A reduplication of ruxe (“it sounds/jingles/roars”).

Segundo o ruxerruxe, un dos xogadores era o gobernador e tamén se falaba do conde e do xuíz e dun capitán da Garda Civil, do cura e mesmo do alcalde

2004, Séchu Sende, Orixe, Editorial Galaxia, →ISBN, page 127:

According to the rumor, one of the gamblers was the governor, and they also told of the count and the judge and a captain of the guards and the priest and even the mayor


pandeirada

(music) festive traditional music piece and dance interpreted by several feminine voices accompanied by pandeiros


tarambollo

tarambollos (plural)
trabollo (alternative)
trambollo (alternative)

Unknown. Attested since circa 1300. Cognate with Portuguese trambolho and Spanish tramojo.

hobble, rod attached to the neck, or other impediment once used to difficult the mobility of dogs


crebafolgas

gl-noun

crebafolgas m or f by sense (invariable)

(derogatory) strikebreaker, scab, blackleg, scalie (non-unionized worker hired to replace striking workers)

(derogatory) scab, strikebreaker, blackleg, scalie (a worker who acts against trade union policies, especially a strikebreaker)


quebrafolgas

quebrafolgas m or f by sense (invariable)


peixe sapo

From peixe (“fish”) and sapo (“toad”): "toad-fish".

Lophius piscatorius
Lophius piscatorius#Translingual

Lophius budegassa
Wikispecies:Lophius budegassa

anglerfish, monkfish (Lophius piscatorius and Lophius budegassa)


cidadán

cidadán m (plural cidadáns, feminine cidadá, feminine plural cidadás)

cidadáns (plural)
cidadá (feminine)
cidadás (feminine plural)

[θi.ð̞aˈð̞ɑŋ]

[θi.ð̞aˈð̞ɑŋ]

[si.ð̞aˈð̞ɑŋ]


afillado

afillado m (plural afillados, feminine afillada, feminine plural afilladas)

afillados (plural)
afillada (feminine)
afilladas (feminine plural)
afilhado (alternative)

First attested in the 13th century. From afillar.

un neno que auia Fernan Gundisalui de Maria Dominguez que era afillado de don Romeu Perez, abbade de Uillanoua de Laurençana

1259, Á. Rodríguez González & J. A. Rey Caiña (eds.), "Tumbo de Lorenzana", in Estudios Mindonienses, 8, page 148

a boy that Fernán González had of María Dominguez, who was godson of Don Romeu Pérez, abbot of Vilanova de Lourenzá

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.
Afonso:
Pois esso non e ben feyto,
porque e vivo coma vn allo,
fino coma vnha pimenta,
e se quer ser Lecenceado
an que venda os bois do jugo
lle teño de dar estado.

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

Afonso:
How is my godson doing?
Christobo:
He already want to go to school,
but since he has no robe
is all the time in the field
to drive away the livestock.
Afonso:
But this is not correct,
because he is smart as a whip,
acute as a pepper grain,
and if he wants to be a bachelor,
even if I have to sell the yoke oxen,
I ought to give him estate.


cailón

cailóns (plural)
cailom (alternative)
cailão (alternative)


tabeirón

tabeiróns (plural)
tiburón (alternative)
tubarom (alternative)
tubarão (alternative)

Unknown, cognate with Portuguese tubarão, Catalan tauró, Taíno tiburo,
Middle French tibéron, and Quechua tiwrun.


base aérea

air base, airbase (military airport, providing housing and support for aircraft and personnel)


meiriño

meiriños (plural)
meirinho (alternative)

Attested since the 13th century. From Medieval Latin majorinus, from maior (“greater”). Cognate with Portuguese meirinho and Spanish merino.


tenreira

First attested in 1150 inside local Latin documents. From tenro (“tender”) + -eira. Compare Spanish ternera.

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.


espaldeira

Attested since 1370. From espalda (“back,”) + -eira.


cheirume

cheirumes (plural)
cheirumio (alternative)

Attested since 1810. From cheiro (“smell”) + -ume.

po la beira da quel Rio Miño, que pasa por Ourense, non se via outra cousa mais que cavalos mortos, pedazos de sillas, morrions, è hosos, era tal ò cheirume que abia que che bastaba para matar à xsente.

1810, José Fernandez y Neira, Proezas de Galicia:

by the bank of the Minho river, as it passes by Ourense, all you could see were dead horses, pieces of saddles, morions and bones; such was the reek that it was enough to kill people


lambaceiro

lambaceiro m (plural lambaceiros, feminine lambaceira, feminine plural lambaceiras)

lambaceiros (plural)
lambaceira (feminine)
lambaceiras (feminine plural)


varredoiro

varredoiros (plural)
varreduiro (alternative)


agulleta

agulletas (plural)
agolleta (alternative)

Attested since circa 1750. From agulla + -eta. Compare Portuguese agulheta, Spanish agujeta and French aiguillette.


camballón

camballóns (plural)
caballón (alternative)
camallón (alternative)
comallón (alternative)


adramán

Attested since circa 1750. From Old French Braimant, a fictitious Saracen giant who was defeated by Charlemagne.

giant; an extremely big person or animal


pándega

Unknown. Cognate with Portuguese pândega.

1886, in O Galiciano, 91, p. 3

"What you need", I reply, "is a good rod down your back; you have always been a dissolute guy, and for having one more day of fun you are taking advantage of this hoax about the end of the world …"

O que a ti che compría, repriquei, era unha boa vragasta polo lombo; sempre foches un perdido, e pra botar un día máis de pándega aporveitaste desa bouba da fin do mundo ...


inquedanza

Attested since 1920. From inquedo (“restless”) + -anza.


desacougo

Attested since 1898. From des- + acougo.


electromobilidade

electromobilidade f (plural electromobilidades)


vergallo

vergallos (plural)
vergalho (alternative)
vargallón (alternative)
vergallón (alternative)

From Old Galician-Portuguese (attested as vargallon in the 13th century), from verga + -allo.


certidume

[θɛɾ.t̪iˈð̞u.mɪ]

[θɛɾ.t̪iˈð̞u.mɪ]

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese certedũe (13th century), from Latin certitūdō, certitūdinem, derived from certus (“certain”). By surface analysis, certo (“certain”) + -dume. Cognate with Portuguese certidão and Spanish certidumbre.


restreba

restrebas (plural)
resteba (alternative)

From re- + a form derived from Latin stīpes.

(collective) stubble, stumps and stalks left after the harvest


restrollo

restrollos (plural)
rastrollo (alternative)
restollo (alternative)
rostrollo (alternative)

From Vulgar Latin *restuclu < *restucŭlum (compare Portuguese restolho, Spanish rastrojo, Catalan rostoll, Occitan restolh, cf. also southern Italian dialectal restuccio), variant of *restupŭlum (compare Catalan and Occitan restoble), from a verb *restupulāre, from stupula, alteration of Latin stipula.


llerga

llergas (plural)
alegre (alternative)
legra (alternative)
llegra (alternative)

Semi-learned borrowing from Latin ligula.

slbor

kind of spoon knife or scorp; a carving curved tool used in woodworking


puxavante

puxavantes (plural)
pexavante (alternative)
pixavante (alternative)

Attested since 1409. From puxa (“press”) + avante (“forward”).

alinpa a huña ataa sas rreyzes contra o touello dapar de a coroa do pee ontre o uiuo et a huna morta con puxauante ou con grosa ataa que começe a deitar sange

1409, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Tratado de Albeitaria, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 145:

clean the hoof till its roots at the ankle, by the crown of the toe, in between the living tissue and the dead hoof, with puxavante or rasp, until it begins to draw blood

tool, kind of hoof knife used for hoof trimming, composed of a handle and a forward cutting edge


refulxencia

refulgence (the quality of being refulgent)


arrepentimento

gl-noun

arrepentimento m (plural arrepentimentos)

regret (emotional pain on account of something done or experienced in the past)


pega marxa

pegas marxas (plural)
pega marcha (alternative)
pega marza (alternative)

pega (“magpie”) marxa (“spotted, freckled, variegated”): "Variegated magpie".

Garrulus glandarius
Garrulus glandarius#Translingual


sabenza

From Old Galician-Portuguese sabença (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin sapientia. Doublet of sapiencia, a borrowing.

no cortés se conoce o cabaleiro,
e a sabenza de un home no seu tino:

on his politeness you know the gentleman,
and the wisdom of a man on his judgment

Este lugar non foi berzo
Na sua idade mais tenra?
Non lle debeu à crianza,
Todo ò seu ser, è à sabenza?

1697, Juan Antonio Torrado, Fala o corvo, escoiten todos:

Was not this place his crib
during his most tender age?
Doesn't he owe it his upbringing,
his whole being and his knowledge?


sabedoría

From Old Galician-Portuguese sabedoria (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from sabedor + -ía. Compare Portuguese sabedoria and Spanish sabiduría.

nos as ditas partes confiando da boa discreçon et sabedoria de uos Fernando Afonso de Belmonte clerigo consentimos et outorgamos en bos por por juys deste pleito

1410, E. Cal Pardo, editor, Colección diplomática medieval do arquivo da catedral de Mondoñedo, Santiago: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 237:

we said parts, being confident on the good discretion and judgment of yours, Fernando Afonso de Belmonte, clergy, we consent and grant on you as judge of this lawsuit


alverxón

/alβ̞eɾˈʃoŋ/

Ceratonia siliqua
Ceratonia siliqua#Translingual

(botany) carob (Ceratonia siliqua, a tree of the Mediterranean region)


titorial

(computing) tutorial (A video or text that is basically a how-to)


galdaripo

Vanellus vanellus
Vanellus vanellus#Translingual


nivel do mar

nivel do mar m (usually uncountable, plural niveis do mar)

sea level (nominal height of the surface of the oceans)


prelo

Attested since the 19th century. From Portuguese prelo, from Latin prelum (“press”)


careza

From Old Galician-Portuguese careza (13th century, Pero da Ponte): from caro (“expensive”) + -eza.

este aforamento vos fazemos por razon da pestilençia, da mortaldade das jentes e a careza dos jornaes dos ommes

1350, A. López Carreira, editor, Documentos do arquivo da catedral de Ourense (1289-1399), page 531:

this leasing we make to you because of the pestilence, the mortality of people and the scarcity of hired work of men


xamba

From French jambe, from Late Latin gamba, from Ancient Greek κάμπη (kámpē), from Proto-Indo-European *kamp- (“to bend; crooked”). Compare Spanish jamba, English jamb.


marabilla

marabillas (plural)
maravilha (alternative)

From Old Galician-Portuguese maravilla (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin mirabilia. Cognate with Portuguese maravilha, Spanish maravilla and English marvel.

Fillo todaslas orações et todoslos sacrifiçios que eu soybe et poyde fazer anoso Señor Deus por aver aty, todoslos [fige]; et el oyume et douteme ẽna myña velleçe et de tua madre, et esto foy marabilla

c. 1300, R. Martínez López, editor, General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV. Ms. O. I. 1. del Escorial, Oviedo: Publicacións de Archivum, page 225:

My son, every prayer and every sacrifice that I knew or could do to our Lord God for having you, that I did; and He heard me and He gave you to me at my old age, and of your mother, and this was a marvel


sesión fotográfica

gl-noun

sesión fotográfica f (plural sesións fotográficas)


sesión de fotos

sesión de fotos f (plural sesións de fotos)


facotexo

De meio corpo pra embaixo fixera cuns facotexos unha mandileta que o tapaba por diante e que deixaba ó descoberto as nádegas

1959, Eduardo Blanco Amor, A esmorga, Editorial Galaxia, →ISBN:


escaseza

From Old Galician-Portuguese escasseza (13th century, Pero da Ponte), from escaso + -eza. Compare Portuguese escassez and Spanish escasez.


abrollo

From Latin aperī oculōs (“open [your] eyes!”). Compare Portuguese abrolho, Spanish abrojo.

inh

Tribulus terrestris
Tribulus terrestris#Translingual

Et os mouros deytarõ moytos abr[ol]los pelos camjnos et polos pasos de Aguadiana, en que se mãcasem os omes et as bestas

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 740:

And the Moors tossed many caltrops along the roads and the forths of the Guadiana, for hurting men and beasts


alxibe

[ɑlʲˈʃi.β̞ɪ]

From Old Galician-Portuguese aljube (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Andalusian Arabic اَلْجُبّ, from Classical Arabic جُبّ (jubb, “cistern, well”). Compare Spanish aljibe.

Outrosy mandamos que o dicto Martin Bezerra et sua moller nen sua voz nen outro algun non posan fazer poço nen sacar agoa nen fazer algibe nen çistrenna nen otra cousa semellante para teer agoa por maneyra de bastimento dentro en a dicta casa noua nen arredor dela trijnta couedos.

1395, Miguel González Garcés, editor, Historia de La Coruña. Edad Media, A Coruña: Caixa Galicia, page 557:

Also, we command that neither said Martin Becerra, nor his wife, nor their successors, nor anyone, could make a well, or extract water, or make a reservoir, or a cistern, or any other such thing for having water as a utility inside the mentioned new house, nor around it for thirty cubits


larafouzas

Obscure: perhaps a composition from lara-, extracted from larengo (“piglet”), and fozas from Latin fauces (“throat”).

unk

Obscure

(derogatory) glutton; one who eats like a pig


alxibeira

From Arabic جَيْب (jayb) + -eira. Compare Portuguese algibeira, Spanish linjavera, Catalan angevera.

O médico, que cando hai liorta e feridos dá parte da gravedade da mancadura, asegún sexa a alxibeira do perxudicado?

1968, Xosé Farina Jamardo, Co sorriso nos beizos, Vigo: Galaxia, page 9:

And what about the doctor, that when there is a brawl and wounded one reports the gravity of the injury depending on the pocket of the injured?


cofiño

From a derivative of Arabic قفة (quffah, “basket”) + -iño, a diminutive suffix.

(nautical) a small closed compartment of the dorna


alcouve

Perhaps ultimately from Arabic حوض (ḥawḍ, “basin”).

Sabeliña chamábase tamén a filla de Antón, e polo garrida era un milleiro de herbas cabreiras, un alcoube de meigallos.

1900, Leopoldo Basa Villadefrancos, Fixo ben?:

Sabeliña was also the name of Anton's daughter, so lush that she was a thousand Lunaria annua, a seedbed of charms.


xermanismo

(linguistics) Germanism (a word or idiom loaned from German or an ancient Germanic language)


paspán

gl-noun

paspán m (plural paspáns, feminine paspana, feminine plural paspanas)

paspáns (plural)
paspana (feminine)
paspanas (feminine plural)


papaleisón

papaleisón m or f by sense (plural papaleisóns)

papaleisóns (plural)
papaleixón (alternative)

From papar (“to gulp, eat”) + Ecclesiastical Latin eleison (“have mercy”): "mass-eater". Compare papahostias (“idiot”, literally “communion wafer eater”).

compound

(derogatory, vulgar) fool, idiot, dimwit


papahostias

gl-noun

papahostias m or f by sense (invariable)

From papar (“to gulp, eat”) + hostias (“communion wafer”). Compare papaleisón.


galeguismo

From galego + -ismo. Compare Spanish galleguismo.

(linguistics) galicianism, a Galician word, phrase or idiom used in another language


lusitanismo

Portuguesism (Portuguese attitudes and culture)

Portuguesism (a word or phrase typical of or derived from Portuguese)


contarrevolucións

tachometer, rev counter (a device for measuring the revolutions per minute (RPMs) of a revolving shaft, as with the driveshaft of an automobile)


lápara

láparas (plural)
llápara (alternative)
llapra (alternative)

Unknown. Compare lapa and Portuguese labareda: the different outcomes of Galician and Portuguese point to an etymon: *lap(p)ara.


transcritor

gl-noun

transcritor m (plural transcritores, feminine transcritora, feminine plural transcritoras)

transcritores (plural)
transcritora (feminine)
transcritoras (feminine plural)

transcriber, transcriptionist (a person who transcribes)


transcritor

(computing) transcriber (a device or program that transcribes data)


cebeira

Jtem ha en rriba de mar, açerqua d‘Entĩjns, ẽna flijglesía de Ssam Giaao de Casas, á tanta herdade de que dam onze quarteyrós ontre pam et froyta; conuẽ a ssaber: dous de nozes et de castañas et os outros de ceueyra et de millo et dúas canbadas de pescado et dous cabritos et quatro capões.

1390, Mª Luz Méndez Fernández (ed.), Contribución ó estudio dun libro das Tenzas da Catedral de Santiago. Edición crítica e estudio dos folios 1 a 27. Santiago: Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, page 15

Item, in the seashore, near Entíns, in the parish of Saint Julian of Casas, there is a property that gives eleven quarters, counting cereals and fruit; that is: two of walnuts and chestnuts and another two of grain and millet, and two bunches of fish, and two kids and four capons


mesteiral

From Old Galician-Portuguese mesteiral (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Medieval Latin ministerialis, from ministerium. Cognate with Spanish menestral.

handicraftsman, craftsperson, craftsman (manual laborer)


xulgado

xulgados (plural)
julgado (alternative)
xurgado (alternative)

Attested since the 13th century. From Old Galician-Portuguese julgado (independently attested in both corpora), borrowed from Old Leonese iulgado, from Latin iūdicātus (“judgeship”).

court (tribunal established for the administration of justice)

eu Johã Rodriguez, notario publico del Rey no julgado de Traſancos τ de Beſoucoſ

1262, Clarinda de Azevedo Maia (ed.), História do galego-português. Estado linguístico da Galiza e do Noroeste de Portugal do século XII ao século XVI (com referência á situação do galego moderno). Coimbra: I.N.I.C., page 46

I, Xoán Rodríguez, King's public notary at the tribunal of Trasancos and Bezoucos

court (hall, chamber, or place, where justice is administered)


xenocida

xenocida m or f by sense (plural xenocidas)

xenocidas (plural)
genocida (alternative)

From Ancient Greek γένος (génos, “race, kind”) + -cida, or xeno- + -cida.

suffix

genocider, genocidaire (one who commits genocide)


touciño entrefebrado

gl-noun

touciño entrefebrado m (plural touciños entrefebrados)

From touciño (“bacon”) and entrefebrado (“streaky”).


rúa cega

[ˈrua ˈθɛɣɐ]

From rúa (“street, alley”) and cega (“blind”).


sospeitoso

sospeitoso m (plural sospeitosos, feminine sospeitosa, feminine plural sospeitosas)

sospeitosos (plural)
sospeitosa (feminine)
sospeitosas (feminine plural)


cuza

Unknown. Perhaps ultimately from Proto-Celtic *kū (“dog”). Cognate with Asturian cusu.


cuzo

Unknown. Probably onomatopoeic, from cuz cuz, voice for calling a dog, but compare Proto-Celtic *kū (“dog”). Cognate with Asturian cusu.


zanfoña

Alternative form of zanfona (“hurdy-gurdy”)


necesidade

From Latin necessitas. Cognate with Portuguese necessidade and Spanish necesidad.


brafoneira

brafoneiras (plural)
brafaneira (alternative)

Ultimatelly from Proto-Germanic *brēdô (“flesh”). Compare Spanish brahonera.


tragueira

Attested since 1840. From tragar (“to gulp, swallow”) + -eira.


peituga

From peito or peitugazo. Compare Spanish pechuga.


señardade

señardades (plural)
señardá (alternative proscribed)

[seɲaɾˈðaðɪ]

From Latin singulāritās, singulāritātem (“singleness”). Doublet of singularidade.

inh

Non canta na Chá ninguén.
 Por eso o meu carro canta.
 Canta o seu eixo tan ben
 que a señardade me espanta.
Non hai canto tan fermoso:
 fino como un asubío.
 Anque é, ás vegadas, saudoso,
 faise, no ar, rechouchío.

1954, Manuel María, “O Carro”, in Terra Chá:

Nobody is singing in the Plains
that's why my cart sings.
Its axle sings so good
that it drives off my loneliness.
There is no song so beautiful:
high-pitched as a whistle.
Albeit it is, sometimes, lonesome
in the air it becomes a tweet.

nostalgia, longing; feeling of loneliness


rechouchío

rechouchíos (plural)
rechoucheo (alternative)

Nobody is singing in the Plains
that's why my cart sings.
Its axle sings so good
that it drives off my loneliness.
There is no song so beautiful:
high-pitched as a whistle.
Albeit it is, sometimes, lonesome
in the air it becomes a chirrup.

chirrup, warble, twitter, chirp (trill of birds)


trampulleiro

gl-noun

trampulleiro m (plural trampulleiros, feminine trampulleira, feminine plural trampulleiras)

trampulleiros (plural)
trampulleira (feminine)
trampulleiras (feminine plural)

From trampulla (“cheat”) + -eiro, from trampa (“trap; trick”).


churrusqueiro

churrusqueiro m (plural churrusqueiros, feminine churrusqueira, feminine plural churrusqueiras)

churrusqueiros (plural)
churrusqueira (feminine)
churrusqueiras (feminine plural)

Attested since the 19ᵗʰ century. From churrusco + -eiro.

E volta e dálle coas cousas tristes. Nin que m'atentara o demo pra me disfrazar de vello roñón, sendo como son tan churrusqueiro

Here we go again with the sad things. As if the devil tempted me to disguise as a grumpy old man, when I'm so charming.


calleiro

a dessert: a sweet pudding traditionally cooked inside a pig's stomach

xiphoid process, xiphisternum, metasternum


presoiro

Attested since the 18ᵗʰ century. From Latin prehensus. Compare French présure.


presoira

presoiras (plural)
presura (alternative)


ventrullo

ventrullos (plural)
ventrulho (alternative)

From Old Galician-Portuguese ventrulho: ventre + -ullo.


tuiteiro

tuiteiro m (plural tuiteiros, feminine tuiteira, feminine plural tuiteiras)

tuiteiros (plural)
tuiteira (feminine)
tuiteiras (feminine plural)

(neologism, Internet) Twitter user, Twitter blogger tweeter, twitterer, tweep (slang)


liberdade de expresión

liberdade de expresión f (plural liberdades de expresión)


fila india

single file (line or queue one person wide)


vérrago

vérragos (plural)
bérrago (alternative)
érrago (alternative)
vergo (alternative)
vérrego (alternative)

Attested since the 18th century. Probably from Latin varus (“eruption”), influenced by verruga.

(veterinary medicine) cattle's subcutaneous swelling caused by larvae


tangaraño

tangaraños (plural)
engaraño (alternative)
tarangaño (alternative)
tangaranho (alternative)

[t̪ɑŋ.ɡɑˈɾa.ɲʊ]

[t̪ɑŋ.ɡɑˈɾa.ɲʊ]

[t̪ɑŋ.ħɑˈɾa.ɲʊ]

Attested since the 19th century. Unknown.

(folklore) demon, goblin or malediction held responsible of such sickness


vélaro

vélaros (plural)
belro (alternative)
berlo (alternative)
velro (alternative)
verlo (alternative)

Related to Spanish véllora, probably from the plural of Latin vellus (“fleece”).


seixada

Attested since 1671. From seixo (“pebble”) + -ada.

que frescos paos a de auer,
que raàs tanboriladas,
que lindos rabos de fouces,
que galantes seijoadas.

1671, Gabriel Feijoo de Araujo, Contenda dos labradores de Caldelas:

such fresh sticks he will have,
such royal slaps on the back,
such beauty sickle handles,
such gallant blows from pebbles


mangallón

mangallón m (plural mangallóns, feminine mangallona, feminine plural mangallonas)

mangallóns (plural)
mangallona (feminine)
mangallonas (feminine plural)

Attested since 1862. Probably from manga (“sleeve”) + -allo + -ón


marulo

marulo m (plural marulos, feminine marula, feminine plural marulas)

marulos (plural)
marula (feminine)
marulas (feminine plural)
marolo (alternative)

Attested since the 19th century. Probably a back-formation from marulán.


chavello

From chavella (“peg”). Compare Portuguese chavelho.

(figurative, anatomy) upper incisor, when very large

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 Compostalano:

I don't know what Judas was bringing in his brain Mr. Pedro, whom I saw the day before yesterday running around, as a kid, and gathering his neighbours asking them to come swiftly 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

(figurative, anatomy) canine tooth; fang, tusk


batuxo

Probably from *bato + -uxo, perhaps from Old French (compare batel), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *baitaz (“boat”).

kind of small boar used mostly for river crossing; bateau


marulán

Attested since the 19th century. Perhaps from *marullanus, ultimately from Proto-Celtic *māros (“big”).

(historical) elder; usually the richest farmer of a community


raigado

Camiños de perdiciós pratican os máis e os menos máis de cen. O carballo máis ferrudo si o becho lle crava o dente no raigado, amolece e xa golbudo vén ao chan prestamente derrumbado. Os vicios son bechos fortes que amolegan corpos duros e valentes

1853, Juan Manuel Pintos, A Gaita Gallega:

Roads to perdition, the most and the least practice more than a hundred. The most robust oak, if the bug sink his teeth in the roots, softens and, when rotten, comes to the ground promptly, slumped. Vices are strong bugs that soften hard and bold bodies.


purrela

→ Spanish: purrela

a soft wine made with either unripe grapes or with old wine and water


parición

paricións (plural)
pariçom (alternative)
parição (alternative)
parizón (alternative)

From parir + -ción. Compare Portuguese parição.

Ai tontiño, porque iñoras
o qu’he mantér casa e vida,
que por ben que estea sortida,
hai faltas a todas horas.
O segundo, que teu pai
pensa com’home de ben,
e así por vergonza ten
unha nora que non trai.
Orasme, sobr’esto hai,
que a dous parizós que teña,
non tendes donde vos veña,
cando ela non colla un mal.

1812, Antonio Benito Fandiño, A Casamenteira:

Oh, silly, because you don't know
what it is to keep house and life,
no matter how well stocked it is,
there's lack at all hours.
Second, your father
thinks like a good man,
and to his shame he has
a daughter-in-law who doesn't bear.
However, on this matter,
with just two childbirths that she has,
you'll be left resourceless,
and that if she doesn't get sick.


ciencia política

ciencia política f (plural ciencias políticas)


comedela

comedelas (plural)
comedenla (alternative)

Attested since 1812. From comida + -ela. Compare Spanish comidilla.


canavela

From Latin canna avena or canna vera. Compare Spanish cañavera.

Para esto val as reizes das canaveas e as reizes da ervatu pisadas e postas pisadas sobrela chaga

1409, G. Pérez Barcala, editor, A tradución galega do "Liber de medicina equorum" de Joradanus Ruffus, Santiago de Compostela: USC, page 205:

For this is good the roots of the canes and the roots of the hog's fennel, pressed and placed over the open wound

Thapsia villosa
Wikispecies:Thapsia villosa


gandaina

Unknown: compare Portuguese gandaia, Spanish gandaya and Catalan gandalla; perhaps ultimately from Gothic 𐍅𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌾𐌰𐌽 (wandjan, “to turn”).

(derogatory) wandering, roaming; laggardness, idleness


leitarega

leitaregas (plural)
leitariga (alternative)
leitarenga (alternative)
leiterena (alternative)
loutarega (alternative)

From Latin lactoris, from Ancient Greek, with the suffix -ego or -engo.

Taraxacum officinale
Taraxacum officinale#Translingual

Hypochaeris radicata
Wikispecies:Hypochaeris radicata

Cichorium intybus
Cichorium intybus#Translingual

Euphorbia helioscopia
Euphorbia helioscopia#Translingual


feixiño de cartos

feixiño de cartos m (plural feixiños de cartos)

Can be translated as "bundle of money" (literally a "a little bundle of quarters").

Antes os mariñeiros traían a casa un feixiño de cartos

In the past fishermen could bring home a small fortune


feixe de cartos

feixe de cartos m (plural feixes de cartos)

Can be translated as "bundle of money" (literally a "bundle of quarters").

non o vendín, non, aínda que me daban por el un bo feixe de cartos

2002, Rosa Aneiros, Corazóns amolecidos en salitre:

I didn't sell it, I didn't, even if they wanted to pay for it a small fortune


canaveira

canaveiras (plural)
caniveira (alternative)

Attested since circa 1300. From canavea (“reed”) + -eira.

Et aquel deus Pam [...] estando el aly veẽo hum pouco de vento et moveo aquelas canaueyras et fazia em ellas hũ som que dizia syrim et esto era que aquelas canaveyras [queriã] dizer ¡Syringa!

1300, R. Martínez López, editor, General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV, Oviedo: Archivum, page 254:

And while being there this god Pan … a little wind came and moved those reeds, and made in them a sound that says syrim, and this is what these reeds wanted to say: Syringe [panpipes]!


auguento

auguentos (plural)
agüento (alternative)

Attested since the 19ᵗʰ century. From auga (“water”) + -ento.

Micromesistius poutassou
Wikispecies:Micromesistius poutassou


visaxe

Attested since circa 1800. From French visage.

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.


crequenas

Attested since circa 1750. Unknown. Probably related to Portuguese encrencar and Spanish enclenque, perhaps ultimately from Proto-Germanic *slinkaną (“to creep, crawl”).

der

a small and weak, hunched or bow-legged person


paxariño

From Old Galician-Portuguese passarinna (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria): paxaro + -iño. Cognate with Portuguese passarinho.


somonte

Estóu debendo na tenda
A chamarra que hoje trago
E o somonte dos calzós
Que ja estan feitos farrapos;

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

I owe to the shop
the coat I wear today
and the cloth of the pants,
which are already in tatters


roleiro

Xa non iremos mais po-los roleiros
en compaña amorosa áas moras, non.
Nin baixo dos follosos ameneiros
as coitas che direi do corazon.

We'll no longer go by the hedges
in loving company for blackberries, no
Nor under the leafy alders
the afflictions of the heart I'll tell you

each one of the strips in which a field is divided in between furrows


fouzaña

From fouce (“sickle”) + -aña, or blend of fouce + gadaña.


rapa das bestas

gl-noun

rapa das bestas f (plural rapas das bestas)

Litearally, "shear of the [wild] horses".

annual celebration when semi-wild horses are gathered for marking them and shear their mane


xílgaro

xílgaros (plural)
cílgaro (alternative)
sílgaro (alternative)
xírgaro (alternative)

Obscure. Related to Spanish jilguero, which derives from an older silguero; perhaps from sirgo (“silk”), but the suffix -aro is usually found in pre-Latin words. Compare also Portuguese pintassilgo.

unk

Obscure

un sinfín de paxaros ben cantores
reiseñores o xílgaro e o sirín

an endless number of singing birds:
nightingales, the goldfinch and the serin

Carduelis carduelis
Carduelis carduelis#Translingual

goldfinch, Eurasian goldfinch, European goldfinch (Carduelis carduelis)


pintasilgo

pintasilgos (plural)
pintasilva (alternative)
pintasilvo (alternative)

Obscure. See xílgaro. Cognate with Portuguese pintassilgo.

Obscure


xirín

xiríns (plural)
serín (alternative)
sirí (alternative)
sírín (alternative)
xirí (alternative)

Attested since circa 1750. Probably borrowed from French serin.

Serinus serinus
Serinus serinus#Translingual


reiseñor

reiseñores (plural)
rousinol (alternative)
reissenhor (alternative)
roussinol (alternative)
rouxinol (alternative)

From Old Galician-Portuguese ruissennor (14th century, Alfonso Álvarez de Villasandino), borrowed from Old Occitan rossinhol, from Vulgar Latin *lusciniolus, diminutive of Classical Latin luscinia (“nightingale”). Cognate with Portuguese rouxinol and Spanish ruiseñor.

Luscinia megarhynchos
Luscinia megarhynchos#Translingual


romaxe

Attested since circa 1750. From Roma (“Rome”) + -axe. Compare Portuguese romagem.


zoscadoiro

zoscadoiros (plural)
foscadoiro (alternative)
soscaduiro (alternative)
suascadoiro (alternative)
zuscadoiro (alternative)

Attested since 1813. From zoscar (“to poke”) + -doiro.

poker (a rod for adjusting the burning logs or coals in a fire)


bagaxe

First attested in 1810. From French baggage.


burricán

gl-noun

burricán m (plural burricáns, feminine burricana, feminine plural burricanas)

burricáns (plural)
burricana (feminine)
burricanas (feminine plural)

Attested since circa 1750. From borrico + -án.


valixa

Attested since 1813. From French valise or Italian valigia.

Dixêronme que asta á besta que trouxêra á balixâ con tan boa notisea, chegara mais sedo do que habia doito leda coma un cuco.

1813, anonymous author, Conversa no adro da igrexa:

They told me that even the horse that brought the postbag with such good news arrived earlier than usual, happy as a lark.


matanza do porco

matanza do porco f (plural matanzas do porco)

From matanza (“killing”) do (“of the”) porco (“pig”).

(folklore) annual activity and celebration held in autumn consisting both in the killing of pigs and the preparation and preservation of their meat for the winter; usually it concludes with a feast


bebedela

Por eso non queren suba
Na sisa nin na taberna
E, en tanto que os demais paguen,
Eles recachan a perna.
E como serán sumidos
En bebedelas, o aumento,
Dan a sisa pol-os tragos
E miran outros pr’o vento.

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

That's why they don't want an increase
in the surcharge nor in the tavern
and, as long as the others pay,
they uncover the leg [they sunbathe].
And since they are gonna be consumed
in binges, the augment,
they give the surcharge for the gulps
and others look into the wind.


cazolo

From cazo + -olo. Compare Spanish cazuela.


pucheiro

From Spanish puchero, from Latin pultārius.

“Vaite, calzon galdrumeiro,”
dixo ó probe decontado,
“tes para hencher un pucheiro
por porte diante ó furado.”

c. 1850, Florencio Pol, Baixaba os calzós Xacobo:

"Get away, you gluttonous pants",
said the poor thing right away,
"you have enough to fill a pot
for standing before the hole"


releón

releón m (plural releóns, feminine releona, feminine plural releonas)

releóns (plural)
releona (feminine)
releonas (feminine plural)
releom (alternative)
releão (alternative)


ferro doce

Et nos dedes del cada anno em salvo por vosa custa en a nosa grania de Valles des padeas de boo ferro doçe por Sam Martino

1373, M. Romaní Martinez (ed.), La colección diplomática de Santa María de Oseira (1025-1310). Santiago: Tórculo Edicións, page 328

And you shall give to us, each year at you expenses at our farm of Vales, ten pans of good wrought iron by Saint Martin's day


diola

Euphemism (or minced oath) for Deus (“God”). First seen in 1836 as pardiola, from por Deus, "by God".


albízaras

[alˈβiθɐɾɐs]

From Old Galician-Portuguese alvyssara, from Andalusian Arabic البِشَرَة (al-bišara), from Arabic بُشْرَى (bušrā). Cognate with Portuguese alvíssaras and Spanish albricias.

que sse fosse para el rrey de Saragoça cõ aquela carta que lhi daua, et el rrey que llj daria aluisara por a(a)quele mãdado

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 529:

that he should go to the king of Saragossa with this letter he was giving to him, and that the king would give him a reward for this errand

gratification or reward for bringing good news


tabao

From Old Galician-Portuguese tavão, from Latin tabānus (“horsefly”). Cognate with Portuguese tavão and Spanish tábano.


porcalla

Attested since 1269 until 1500. From porco (“pig”) + -alla.

ſſete ouellas τ dous años τ ſſete cabras τ quatro cabritos τ duas porcas τ mea doutra τ hũa porcalla con ſſeus fillos τ dose patas τ treσe gallinas cõ quatorze pĩtoos

1348, Clarinda de Azevedo Maia, editor, História do galego-português, Coimbra: I.N.I.C, page 159:

seven sheep and two lambs and seven goats and four kids and two sows and a half and a sow with her sons and twelve ducks and thirteen hens with fourteen chicks

mays huna porcalla çebada boa

1473, M. Romaní Martínez, edited by M. P. Rodríguez Suárez, Libro tumbo de pergamino. Un códice medieval del monasterio de Oseira, Santiago de Compostela: Tórculo, page 58:


polbeiro

polbeiro m (plural polbeiros, feminine polbeira, feminine plural polbeiras)

polbeiros (plural)
polbeira (feminine)
polbeiras (feminine plural)
pulpeiro (alternative)

En difrentes sitios da carballeira estaban as pulpeirías cos seus caldeiros cobrizos acugulados de pulpo, postos a ferver riba de grandes fogueiras que envolvían en nubes de fume a feira toda i ameazaban afogar á xente menos á pulpeira que polo visto tiña agallas de tiburón e polo mesmo non lle impidía de rogar ca súa mercancía berrando: «¡Comprádeme o pulpooo...! ¡Ai que rico é, mociños..., ai que rícooo...!»

At diverse places along the oak grove there were octopus post, with their bronze cauldrons overflowing with octopuses boiling over large bonfires which covered in smoke clouds all the fair, and menaced to choke all of the attendants with the exception of the cook, who apparently had shark gills which allowed her to advertise her merchandise shouting "Buy my octopus...! It's so delicious, boys... so delicious!"


adival

Unknown. Perhaps derived from Latin vitis.

long and strong rope used to secure the load of a cart


treixa

Unknown. Ultimately perhaps from Proto-Celtic *trexsos, from Proto-Indo-European *treg- (“strength”).


treixadura

treixaduras (plural)
treijadura (alternative)

Unknown. Attested since 1850. Cognate with Portuguese trajadura.


bugallón

Attested since circa 1750. From bugallo + -ón.

buttercup, greater spearwort (Ranunculus lingua)


botón de ouro

botóns de ouro (plural)
botón d'ouro (alternative)

buttercup (herb of the genus Ranunculus)


patelo

Polybius henslowii
Wikispecies:Polybius henslowii


tapadeira

Arnoglossus laterna
Wikispecies:Arnoglossus laterna


pufista

Calque of Spanish petardista, with base in pufo (“fraud”).

pido con xusticia qu'o señor Gobernador pubrique unha real orde impoñendo castigos ós pufistas, pois señores, os xastres estamos cheos de pufos hastr'a cabeza

I ask with justice that the Governor publish a royal decree imposing a punishment on the scammers, because, gentlemen, we the tailors are covered with unpaid debts till our heads


caritel

Already attested in original local Medieval Latin documents since the 11th century. From *caraiter, from Latin characteris, as a character was frequently engraved on stones or trees as landmark of fiefs. Doublet of caracter.

(law, historical) a kind of fine paid to the fiefholder by trespassers or infractors


vasalaxe

vasalaxes (plural)
vassalagem (alternative)

From Old Galician-Portuguese vassalagẽ (13th century), from Old French vasselage.

o dicto Iohanne vidal devea de morar per sy ou per outren. e fazer foro como outros couteiros. e se alguu dasua geerazon ou ele foren morar avila de foro sempre deven fazer vasalagen o moesteiro doya

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

said Johan Vidal must dwell in it, or provide someone to dwell in it, and must made a contract as other dwellers; and if someone of his progenies or himself went to live in town, under contract, they must always made vassalage to the monastery of Oia

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

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

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

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.


ladrizo

Attested since 1822. From Latin latus, lateris (“side”) + -izo.

xa morreu aquel ladriso de tantos esbirros que nos furtaba o diñeiro sin decir mais cousa algun-a

it has already died that strap [prison, etc.] of so many henchmen who stole our money without saying a word

chain or strap which connects both cacís of a Galician withers yokes


alto mar

From Old Galician-Portuguese alto mar (13th century, Martin Codax): alto (“high, deep”) and mar (“sea”).

Desý ouueron moy bon uẽto, cõ que entrarõ a alto mar, Et espedírõsse de todos seus amjgos et de todos seus parẽtes.

1370, R. Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 250:

Thenceforth they had very good wind, with which they entered the high sea, and they said goodbye to all of their friends and family


carapola

carapolas (plural)
carpola (alternative)


touquinegra

From Old Galician-Portuguese touquinegra (13th century), a compound of touca (“veil”) + negra (“black”).


carapa

Probably from a substrate language. Compare English carapace.


mázcara

Attested since circa 1800. Ultimately from Italian maschera.


seguranza

seguranzas (plural)
segurança (alternative)

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese segurança (attested since circa 1300). By surface analysis, asegurar + -anza.


arreitó

arreitós (plural)
arroutó (alternative)
reitó (alternative)

A diminutive in -ó from a back formation of arreitar (“to arouse”), "little aphrodisiac" or the like, because of the alleged aphrodisiac properties of this plant (columbine).

Aquilegia vulgaris
Aquilegia vulgaris#Translingual

Linaria triornithophora
Wikispecies:Linaria triornithophora

three-bird toadflax (Linaria triornithophora)

Linaria vulgaris
Linaria vulgaris#Translingual


paxariños

Literally, “birdies”; note the English names columbine, from dove, and three-bird toadflax.


xadeíta

Compare Spanish jadeíta and Portuguese jadeíte.


xaculatoria

short and fervent prayer (said in novenas and other devotions)


sarabela

sarabelas (plural)
xarabela (alternative)

Attested since circa 1750. From sarabia + -ela.


trepeza

Blend from Latin interpedia and tripedia, from pēs (“foot”).


samborca

allis shad (Alternative form of zamborca)


papallóns

papallós (alternative)
papallois (alternative)


opilión

opilións (plural)
opiliom (alternative)
opilião (alternative)

Os opilións son arácnidos, en xeral de aspecto desgarbado, con longas patas e corpo pequeno e globoso.

2011, María Eulalia Eiroa Álvarez, María Josefa Lombardero Díaz, Teresa Rodríguez López, “Invertebrados” (chapter 10), in Manuel Antonio Rodríguez Guitián, Antonio Rigueiro Rodríguez, editors, Os faiais de Galicia: ecoloxía e valor ambiental., Diversidade biolóxica dos faiais galegos, Lugo: Horreum–Ibader, →ISBN, page 236:

Logo de temer o peor, descubriron, metidos en grupos nos ocos, en postura defensiva, os exclusivísimos opilións.

2013 September 12, “Hai vida despois dos incendios?”, in Galicia Confidencial, A Coruña, archived from the original on 2024-05-13:

A clase Aracnídeos inclúe nomeadamente as especies de arañas, escorpións, pseudoescorpións, opilións, carrazas e ácaros.

2020, “Notas introdutorias”, in Os nomes galegos dos aracnídeos, 2 edition, Xinzo de Limia: A Chave, A estrutura, page 2:

harvestman (any arachnid of the order Opiliones)


cana de pescar

gl-noun

cana de pescar f (plural canas de pescar)


besbello

Attested since circa 1750. Onomatopoeic.

any other similar aquatic bug used as a bait


esternina

esterninas (plural)
estricnina (alternative)

From French strychnine, from Greek στρύχνος (strýchnos, “sleepy nightshade”).


pescadiña

→ Spanish: pescadilla (calque)

Attested since circa 1750. From pescada (“hake”) + -iña.

Merluccius merluccius
Merluccius merluccius#Translingual

a young specimen of European hake (Merluccius merluccius)


corbelo

corbelos (plural)
corobelo (alternative)
corubelo (alternative)
crobelo (alternative)
curubelo (alternative)

Attested since 1417 (corvelo). Perhaps from corvo (“crow”) + -elo. Compare French corbeau.

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

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

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

(larger specimens)

Pollachius pollachius
Pollachius pollachius#Translingual

European pollock (Pollachius pollachius, younger specimens)


alferga

Attested since circa 1750. Ultimately from Arabic حلقة (ḥalqa, “ring, loop”). Cognate with Spanish helga (“hoop, bracelet”).


carronzo

carronzos (plural)
carronza (alternative)

Unknown. Probably from a substrate language.


carriozo

carriozos (plural)
carrivozo (alternative)
carrozo (alternative)


restroballo

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

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


ancián

gl-noun

ancián m (plural anciáns, feminine anciá, feminine plural anciás)

anciáns (plural)
anciá (feminine)
anciás (feminine plural)
auçião (alternative archaic)
anciao (alternative)
anciam (alternative)
ancião (alternative)

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese ancião (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), probably borrowed from Old French ancien, from Vulgar Latin *antianus.


vellote

gl-noun

vellote m (plural vellotes, feminine vellota, feminine plural vellotas)

vellotes (plural)
vellota (feminine)
vellotas (feminine plural)
velhote (alternative)

From vello + -ote. Compare Portuguese velhote.


bimbastro

Blend of guindastre (“windlass”) + bambán (“seesaw, swing”).


saramaganta

saramagantas (plural)
sarmaganta (alternative)

Probably a blend of Latin salamandra and another term.

Chioglossa lusitanica
Wikispecies:Chioglossa lusitanica

gold-striped salamander (Chioglossa lusitanica)


vento mareiro

gl-noun

vento mareiro m (plural ventos mareiros)

Attested since circa 1750. From vento (“wind”) mareiro (“marine”).


consolda

consoldas (plural)
consoldra (alternative)
solda (alternative)
solda consolda (alternative)

Attested since 1409. From Latin cōnsolida, from cōnsolidō (“I consolidate”).

Item. Para esto faras ainda outro pedamaço que é mellor: filla a consolda maior e bolo armenico e o galbano e o armanico e o pez grego e almecega e o encenço macho e o sangue do dagron, e seja tanta cantia de pez e da almecega, e do encenço como de todaslas outras cousas asűadas, e façase poo de todo e mesturenlle űa peça de fariña de trigo, e amasen todo con craras d’ovos, e, pois que todo for ben amasado, estendan esta maça torra en pano de liño, e tamaño que cubra todo o lugar raudo en que é a door, e non lle tollan este emprasto ata que se el non tire leviamente de seu

1409, G. Pérez Barcala, editor, A tradución galega do "Liber de medicina equorum" de Joradanus Ruffus, Santiago de Compostela: USC, page 192:

Symphytum officinale
Wikispecies:Symphytum officinale


cebadeira

cebadeiras (plural)
sabadeira (alternative)

[θeβaˈðejɾɐ]

quantity of corn enough for baking the weekly bread


aniñadoiro

aniñadoiros (plural)
aniadoiro (alternative)
niadoiro (alternative)
ninadeiro (alternative)
aninhadoiro (alternative)


cálsamo

cálsamos (plural)
cálcemo (alternative)
cálsama (alternative)


touliña

touliñas (plural)
taulía (alternative)
tauliña (alternative)
toliña (alternative)
toniña (alternative)
toulía (alternative)
touriña (alternative)

From Vulgar Latin *thunnina, from Latin thunnus (“tuna”), from Ancient Greek θύννος (thúnnos). Compare Spanish toñina and Catalan tonyina.


tarandeira

tarandeiras (plural)
talandreira (alternative)
trandeira (alternative)
trondeira (alternative)

beam or rail used for hanging and drying clothes or corn

hanger used for drying and curing sausages


palilleira

palilleira f (plural palilleiras, masculine palilleiro, masculine plural palilleiros)

palilleiras (plural)
palilleiro (masculine)
palilleiros (masculine plural)


brondo

brondo m (plural brondos, feminine bronda, feminine plural brondas)

brondos (plural)
bronda (feminine)
brondas (feminine plural)

Borrowed from Middle French blond m, from Old French blond, blont, Medieval Latin blondus, from Frankish *blund (“a mixed color between golden and light-brown”), from Proto-Germanic *blundaz (“mixed, blinding”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰlendʰ- (“to become turbid, see badly, go blind”).


molladura

From mollar (“to wet, moisten”) + -dura. Compare Portuguese molhadura and Spanish mojadura.

anque fora para xûntar puchos para á cortaduria non rompia mais sapatos, nin levaba mais molladuras das que levou de casa en casa dos eleutores

1837, anonymous author, Coloquio na pontella da Chaínsa:

not even if it was to gather calves for the butcher shop had he broken more shoes or taken more soakings than what he took from house to house of the electors


cortadoría

not even if it was to gather calves for the butcher shop had he broken more shoes or taken more soakings than what he took going from house to house of the electors


longueirón

longueiróns (plural)
lingueirón (alternative)
longueiró (alternative)

From an older *longueiroo, from longo (“long”) + -eiro + -ó.

Phaxas pellucidus
Phaxas pellucidus#English


rapeiro

gl-noun

rapeiro m (plural rapeiros, feminine rapeira, feminine plural rapeiras)

rapeiros (plural)
rapeira (feminine)
rapeiras (feminine plural)

From rap (“rap music”) + -eiro, a calque of English rapper.


carrán

carráns (plural)
carrao (alternative)
carrau (alternative)
quirrán (alternative)

Onomatopoeic, probably; the different dialectal forms points to a protoform *carrano.

Sterna hirundo
Sterna hirundo#Translingual


balbordo

balbordos (plural)
balburdio (alternative)
barburdo (alternative)
balbor (alternative)

Attested since circa 1750. Unknown, perhaps a blend of an onomatopoeia and a derivative of Latin *bullitare.


fasquía

From vasca (“gag reflex”) + -ía, from Proto-Celtic *wā(d)-sko- (“to press”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *wedʰH- (“strike”).


fasquía

From Andalusian Arabic [script needed] (faṣqîya), ultimately from Latin fascia.


sacabeira

sacabeiras (plural)
sapagueira (alternative)

Unknown. Perhaps related to sapo. Cognate with Asturian sacavera.


morouzo

Unknown, probably from a substrate language and related to morea.


santeiro

gl-noun

santeiro m (plural santeiros, feminine santeira, feminine plural santeiras)

santeiros (plural)
santeira (feminine)
santeiras (feminine plural)

santero (a man who crafts images of saints)


percebella

/peɾθeˈβeʎɐ/

From percebe + -ella, or from Late Latin *pollicipedicula.

Lepas anatifera
Wikispecies:Lepas anatifera

(crustacean) smooth gooseneck barnacle (Lepas anatifera)


iniciaçom

iniciações (plural)
iniciación (alternative)
iniciação (alternative)

Learned borrowing from Latin initiātiōnem. Cognate with Portuguese iniciação.


aproximaçom

reintegrationist spelling of aproximación


militarizaçom

reintegrationist spelling of militarización


reboutallo

reboutallos (plural)
rebotallo (alternative)
revoltallo (alternative)

Uncertain. From rebotar (“to rebound”) or revolta (“turn”) + -allo.


carreiriña dun can

Idiomatic, literally "a dog's little run".

—Falta moito para Santiago? —A carreiriña dun can.

"Is Santiago far from here?" "A dog's run."

"Is Santiago far from here?" "A dog's run [yes, but you can keep on trying]."


temoneiro

gl-noun

temoneiro m (plural temoneiros, feminine temoneira, feminine plural temoneiras)

temoneiros (plural)
temoneira (feminine)
temoneiras (feminine plural)

(nautical) helmsman, coxswain (person responsible for steering a ship)


timoeiro

timoeiro m (plural timoeiros, feminine timoeira, feminine plural timoeiras)

timoeiros (plural)
timoeira (feminine)
timoeiras (feminine plural)


rodista

rodista m (plural rodistas, feminine rodista, feminine plural rodistas)

rodistas (plural)
rodista (feminine)
rodistas (feminine plural)


gabián

gabiáns (plural)
gaviám (alternative)
gavião (alternative)

Possibly of Germanic origin and from an unattested Gothic *𐌲𐌰𐌱𐌹𐌻𐌰 (*gabila, “sparrow hawk”), which would be related to Proto-West Germanic *gabulu. Compare the cognates listed at Spanish gavilán and Portuguese gavião.


incre

incres (plural)
engre (alternative)
incle (alternative)
ingre (alternative)
engra (alternative)

From local Vulgar Latin *encŭde, from incus (“anvil”).

anvil, especially a portable anvil used to sharpen scythes


ingre

ingres (plural)
engre (alternative)
incle (alternative)
incre (alternative)
engra (alternative)


lambiza

From Suevic, from Proto-Germanic *lappjaz, *lappēn, *lappōn, *lapil- (“cloth stuff, rag, scraps, flap, dewlap, lobe, rabbit ear”), from Proto-Indo-European *leb- (“blade”). Akin to Old High German lappa (“rag, piece of cloth”) (German Lappen (“cloths”)), Old English læppa (“skirt, flap of a garment”).


cotorza

From galiña (“hen”) + -ola. Compare Portuguese galinhola.


fariñento

Attested since circa 1750. Either inherited from Latin farinulentus, or an internal derivation: fariña (“flour”) + -ento.

Chenopodium album
Chenopodium album#Translingual


cortalumes

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

(architecture) firewall (a fireproof barrier used to prevent the spread of fire between or through buildings, structures, electrical substation transformers, or within an aircraft or vehicle)


multiculturalista

gl-noun

multiculturalista m or f by sense (plural multiculturalistas)


belida

belidas (plural)
bilida (alternative)
blida (alternative)
velida (alternative)
vilida (alternative)

(pathology) cataract (A clouding of the lens in the eye leading to a decrease in vision)


amoxo

Uncertain. Perhaps from Latin mulgeo. Compare Portuguese amojo.


ouricela

[oʊ̯ɾiˈθɛlɐ]

Unknown. Cognate with French orseille, English orchil.


rexoubeiro

rexoubeiro m (plural rexoubeiros, feminine rexoubeira, feminine plural rexoubeiras)

rexoubeiros (plural)
rexoubeira (feminine)
rexoubeiras (feminine plural)
rexobeiro (alternative)
rexoubante (alternative)
rexoubadeiro (alternative)
rexoubador (alternative)
rexoubón (alternative)
rexubeiro (alternative)
rixubeiro (alternative)
rexaldeiro (alternative)
rexubeiro (alternative)
rebuldeiro (alternative)

Someone known for frequent attendance at parties, party animal, carouser, reveller.


granxeiro

granxeiro m (plural granxeiros, feminine granxeira, feminine plural granxeiras)

granxeiros (plural)
granxeira (feminine)
granxeiras (feminine plural)

/ɡɾɐnˈʃejɾʊ/

Os granxeiros están sufrindo as consecuencias da seca.

The farmers are suffering the consequences of the withered


cortatubos

From corta (“cut”) + tubos (“tubes, pipes”).


alicates universais

(US, UK) combination pliers, (US, UK) lineman's pliers, (Canada) linesman pliers, (US, genericized trademark) Kleins


vulcanoloxía

From Latin Vulcānus (“Vulcano”), Roman god of fire + -loxía.


paxarela

From paxara (“bird”) + -ela. Compare dialectal Spanish pajarilla.


veceira

communal herd and turn to watch and shepherd it, either by oneself or by a hired shepherd


zarpador

(military) sapper (soldier responsible for digging underground galleries)


albanel

albaneis (plural)
alvanel (alternative)
alvaner (alternative)

[ɑl.β̞aˈnɛɫ]


maimiño

maimiños (plural)
mamiño (alternative)
maumiño (alternative)
meimiño (alternative)
moimiño (alternative)


aliviadoiro

Attested since the 18th century. From aliviar (“to alleviate”) + -doiro. Compare Portuguese aliviadouro.

lever which regulates the pressure in between both millstones of a watermill


orzamento

orzamentos (plural)
orçamento (alternative)

(business) quote (summary of work to be done with a set price)

(finance, politics) budget (itemized summary of intended expenditure and expected revenue)


picanzo

Probably from Latin picus. Cognate with Portuguese picanço.

shrike (any of various passerine birds of the family Laniidae)


labaza

From Latin *lappacea, from lappa (“burdock”); or either from Latin lapathium, from Ancient Greek λάπαθον (lápathon).


radar de tráfico

radar de tráfico m (plural radares de tráfico)


pobriño

pobriño m (plural pobriños, feminine pobriña, feminine plural pobriñas)

pobriños (plural)
pobriña (feminine)
pobriñas (feminine plural)

From pobre (“poor”) + -iño, diminutive/affective suffix.

Pò la mañà ben cedo
O nosso Rey Don Luis,
Mais ledo, mais garrido,
Qu'ò cravel, è ò jazmin:
Tan lindo, tan benfeito
Que posto cabe d'il,
Adonis ê un probiño,
Narciso vn aprendiz:

1724, Luis de Losada, Mourning for the death of king Luis:

Early in the morning
our king Luís,
more joyful, lusher,
than carnation, than jasmine:
so beauty, so handsome
that by his side
Adonis is but a poor thing,
Narcissus an apprentice


barra de tarefas

barra de tarefas f (plural barras de tarefas)


pumarega

Attested since the 13th century. From pomar (“apple tree”) + -ego.


corrección política

political correctness
political correctness


pavillón

pavillóns (plural)
pavilhom (alternative)
pavilhão (alternative)

Borrowed from French pavillon, Old French paveillon, from Latin papilio, papilionem.


baldequín

Borrowed from Middle French baldekin, from Italian baldacchino, from Baldacca, a variant of Bagdad (“Baghdad”), where the material originally came from.


fachuzo

fachuzos (plural)
pachuzo (alternative)
fachuço (alternative)


pabón

pabóns (plural)
pabom (alternative)
pabão (alternative)


teclado numérico

teclado numérico m (plural teclados numéricos)


mensaxería instantánea

(communication, computing) instant messaging


máquina virtual

máquina virtual f (plural máquinas virtuais)


badoco

badoco m (plural badocos, feminine badoca, feminine plural badocas)

badocos (plural)
badoca (feminine)
badocas (feminine plural)


esprego

From Latin spīculum, with metathesis of /l/. Compare Aragonese espligo, Catalan espígol.

Lavandula angustifolia
Lavandula angustifolia#Translingual


relanzamento

From re- + lanzamento or relanzar + -mento.


pimpín

Onomatopoeic. Attested since circa 1750.

Fringilla coelebs
Fringilla coelebs#Translingual

(figurative, patronizing, derogatory) poor devil


papeleira de reciclaxe

papeleira de reciclaxe f (plural papeleiras de reciclaxe)

(computing) recycle bin (in Microsoft Windows)


gardián

gardián m (plural gardiáns, feminine gardiá, feminine plural gardiás)

gardiáns (plural)
gardiá (feminine)
gardiás (feminine plural)

Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *wardāną (“to guard”). Compare Portuguese guardião, Spanish guardián, English guardian.

frey Lourenço d'Orzellon gardian do moesteyro de San Françisco de Ourense

1319, Miguel Romaní Martínez (ed.), La colección diplomática de Santa María de Oseira (1025-1310). Santiago: Tórculo Edicións, IV, page 44

friar Lourenzo de Orcellón, superior of the monastery of Saint Francis in Ourense


mentireiro

mentireiro m (plural mentireiros, feminine mentireira, feminine plural mentireiras)

mentireiros (plural)
mentireira (feminine)
mentireiras (feminine plural)
mintireiro (alternative)

From Old Galician-Portuguese mentireiro (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria): mentira (“lie”) + -eiro.


pallaso

pallasos (plural)
palhaço (alternative)
paiaso (alternative)
pallazo (alternative)

Attested since circa 1865. Borrowed from Italian pagliaccio.


colmadura

Attested since 1474. From colmar + -dura.

que fumegen e mantenan a dita casa de pedra e madeyra e colmadura em tal manna que se non parta per mingoa de boo favor e reparamento

1474, M. del Carmen Sánchez Carrera, editor, El Bajo Miño en el siglo XV. El espacio y los hombres, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 341:

they shall smoke and maintain said house of stone, wood and thatch in such a manner that it doesn't decay because of lack or work and repair

(construction) thatched roof; thatch used in the construction of a building or house


colazo

colazo m (plural colazos, feminine colaza, feminine plural colazas)

colazos (plural)
colaza (feminine)
colazas (feminine plural)

From Old Galician-Portuguese colaço (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin collacteus (“foster brother”). Compare Spanish collazo.

Collazo

Castilianized surname, from earlier Colaço


galbán

Borrowed from Latin galba, or directly from Proto-Celtic *galbā, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *golbʰo- (“womb; animal young”).

der

a kind of little worm used as bait for fishing (animal)


correeiro

gl-noun

correeiro m (plural correeiros, feminine correeira, feminine plural correeiras)

correeiros (plural)
correeira (feminine)
correeiras (feminine plural)

Attested since the 14th century. From correa (“leather strap”) + -eiro.


custodia compartida

2020 October 27, “Aumentan os casos de custodia compartida dos fillos nos divorcios”, in CRTVG:


plus de perigosidade

plus de perigosidade m (plural pluses de perigosidade)

2021 April 6, “A CIG reclama o plus de perigosidade para o persoal das empresas de conservación de estradas”, in CIG:

2020 December 4, Anxo Lourido, “Reclaman o plus de perigosidade para o persoal de limpeza do Hospital Provincial e Montecelo”, in Pontevedra Viva:


perigosidade

dangerousness, perilousness, riskiness, hazardousness; peril, danger


areeiro

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin harēnārius or either internally from area (“sand”) + -eiro. Cognate with Portuguese areeiro and Spanish arenero.

Ammodytes tobianus
Wikispecies:Ammodytes tobianus

little ringed plover
little ringed plover

Charadrius dubius
Charadrius dubius#Translingual

little ringed plover (Charadrius dubius)


coxote

coxotes (plural)
conxote (alternative)
cuxote (alternative)

Attested since 1361. From coxa (“thigh”) + -ote.

et huun lorigom, por que me dauan oyto centos moravedís et huuns coxotes e huas caneleyras, quer çento e quareenta moravedís

1361, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros, Vigo: Galaxia, page 92:

and a chain mail, valued in 800 maravedis, and a pair of tassets and of greaves, 140 maravedis


billote

Attested since the 18th century. From billa + -ote.


bullote

Attested since the 18th century. From bullar (“to remove the husk”) + -ote.


gueldo

Unknown. Compare Spanish gueldo, Basque geldu, French gueldre.


engado

Unknown. Attested since circa 1750; Cognate with Portuguese engodo.


videovixilancia

From vídeo (“video”) + vixilancia (“surveillance”).

compound

video surveillance, video monitoring, CCTV


enxeño

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

Conta a estoria que el rrey, estando sobre Jahem, ouue seu consello cõnos omes bõos da oste como nõ tijnã guisado para cercar [a] vila, poys nõ tragiã engenos, et que seria mellor andar pela terra et astragala ca nõ ficar aly

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 782:

The story says that the King, being at Jaen, held a meeting with the notables of the army, and as they had no way to besiege the town, since they didn't brought siege engines, that it would be better to raid the land and waste it than to stay there


tramallo

tramallos (plural)
trasmallo (alternative)
tremallo (alternative)
tresmallo (alternative)
tramalho (alternative)

From Vulgar Latin *trimaculum. Cognate with French tremail, Italian tramaglio, English trammel.


preito

From Old Galician-Portuguese preito (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), probably from Old French plait, ultimately from Latin placitum.


quenta

Back-formation from quentar (“to heat; to beat up”).

back-formation

Tu ven puderas calar,
por que si o Demo te tènta,
hache de dar unha quenta
que te hà de por a pelar:

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

Rather you should shut up
because if the Devil tempts you
he's going to give you a beating
enough to peel you


freima

Semi-learned borrowing from Latin phlegma, from Ancient Greek φλέγμα (phlégma). Doublet of flegma.

slbor

E Vos non vedes à teima
En que deu à mia gente,
Que ey de glossar de repente
Sin ter geño nin freima:
Vàn à Madril eu a Reyma,

1723, Anselmo Feixó e Montenegro, E vós non vedes a teima?:

Don't you see the idée fixe
my people have caught
that I'm going to gloss at the moment
having no genius or phlegm?
They are going to Madrid, I to the paper,


hipocrás

From French ipocras, after Medieval Latin vinum Hippocraticum (“Hippocrates's wine”), because it was filtered through a Hippocratic sleeve.

der

que n'o Hipocràs non pases
deo medio neto.

1777, Diego Cernadas y Castro, Arcos mio:

on hippocras
don't drink past half a pint


excepcionalidade

gl-noun

excepcionalidade f (plural excepcionalidades)


avogacía

Attested since at least since 1416. Semi-learned borrowing from Medieval Latin advocātia, from Latin advocātus (“attorney”).

slbor

que pagasen a Gomes Rodriges, bachiller, os quatroçentos moravedis, brancas en tres dineiros, que avia de aver por rason de seu selario de avocaçia deste dito anno.

1416, A. Rodríguez González (ed.), Libro do Concello de Santiago (1416-1422). Santiago de Compostela: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 23

that they must pay Gomes Rodríguez, bachelor, the four hundred maravedis, in brancas, each one three denarii, that he must have because of his salary of advocacy for this said year


cociña americana

gl-noun

cociña americana f (plural cociñas americanas)


cociña aberta

cociña aberta f (plural cociñas abertas)


abondamento

From Old Galician-Portuguese avondamento (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria): abondar + -mento.


amirolo

Uncertain. Possibly from Latin amārus (“bitter”) + Latin -olus.


barbacá

From Old Galician-Portuguese barvacãa (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Old French barbacane, of uncertain origin: compare English barbican, Arabic بَرْبَخ (barbaḵ, “aqueduct, sewer”), and Persian بابخانه (bâb-xâne, “gatehouse”). Cognate with Portuguese barbacã.


uxa

uxas (plural)
eixe (alternative)
oucha (alternative)
ouxa (alternative)
uxe (alternative)

Dasyatis pastinaca
Wikispecies:Dasyatis pastinaca

Myliobatis aquila
Wikispecies:Myliobatis aquila


guerla

guerlas (plural)
gala (alternative)
galra (alternative)
garla (alternative)
guelra (alternative)

Unlikely from Latin glandula, pace Coromines (cf. landra); perhaps from Germanic. Cognate with Portuguese guelra.

(animal anatomy) gill (breathing organ of fish)


carretilleiro

gl-noun

carretilleiro m (plural carretilleiros, feminine carretilleira, feminine plural carretilleiras)

carretilleiros (plural)
carretilleira (feminine)
carretilleiras (feminine plural)

2019 July 16, “Como se forma un carretilleiro e en que consiste este traballo?”, in Radio Galega:

Estas primeiras previsións dunha empresa de traballo temporal auguran que desas case 50.000 contratacións en Galicia moitas irán para perfís de atención ao cliente e de loxística, coma carretilleiros ou mozos de almacén.

2019 October 15, “Prevén máis empregos de Nadal malia a desaceleración”, in TVG:


touro mecánico

touro mecánico m (plural touros mecánicos)

touros mecánicos (plural)
touro mecânico (alternative)


chamariza

Vitex agnus-castus
Vitex agnus-castus#Translingual


fodón

fodóns (plural)
fodión (alternative)
fudón (alternative)

From foder (“to annoy”) + -ón, perhaps because of its behaviour and low value.

Trisopterus minutus
Wikispecies:Trisopterus minutus


vellez

From Old Galician-Portuguese vellece (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria): vello + -ez. Cognate with Portuguese velhice, Spanish vejez.

oldness, age (the property of that which is old)

old age (the time when one is an old person)


desxudicialización

desxudicialización f (plural desxudicializacións)

From des- + xudicialización or xudicializar + -ción.


tarrelo

Conopodium majus
Wikispecies:Conopodium majus

Bunium flexuosum
Wikispecies:Bunium flexuosum

Conopodium denudatum
Wikispecies:Conopodium denudatum

Bunium bulbocastanum
Bunium bulbocastanum#Translingual

Carum bulbocastanum
Wikispecies:Carum bulbocastanum

earthnut plant (Conopodium majus (syns. Bunium flexuosum, Conopodium denudatum), Bunium bulbocastanum (syn. Carum bulbocastanum))


abellón

abellóns (plural)
abelhom (alternative)
abelhão (alternative)

From abella (“bee”) + -ón, augmentative suffix. Compare Portuguese abelhão.

(folklore) ancient funerary practice where relatives and neighbours of the deceased would reunite around his or her deathbed, take hands and buzz around, allegedly to guide the deceased's soul


cabalete

Compare Portuguese cavalete and Spanish caballete.

four sheaves arranged in a similar disposition


cafetaría

Despois de comer baixamos á cafetaría.

After eating we went down to the cafeteria.


acompañamento

acompañamentos (plural)
acompanhamento (alternative)


aeroxerador

aeroxeradores (plural)
aerogerador (alternative)


muíño eólico

muíños eólicos (plural)
muinho eólico (alternative)
moinho eólico (alternative)


esvaradoiro

From esvarar (“to slip”) + -doiro, "place where".


centoenrama

From cento (“a hundred”) en (“in”) rama (“branch, twig”).

Daucus carota
Daucus carota#Translingual

Queen Anne's lace, wild carrot (Daucus carota)


esportela

Attested since circa 1300. From esporta + -ela.


reintegracionista

reintegracionista m or f by sense (plural reintegracionistas)


camurza

From Late Latin camox, from Gaulish camox, influenced by corza (“doe”).
Cognate with Spanish gamuza, Portuguese camurça, Occitan camos and French chamois.


pegamazo

Attested since 1409. From pegar (“to glue”). Cognate with Portuguese pegamasso.

A estas enfirmidades dos ollos faras taes meeziñas: primeiramente ao ollo que lagrimeja faras na fronte do cavalo estritorio, que quer dizer pegamaço como emprasto, e reel·lo ás a par das trincheiras; e filla o poo d’almecega e azeite e as craras dos ovos, e amasa todo moi ben e pono en pano de liño ancho de quatro dedos, e seja tan longo que atanga de űa trincheira aa outra en meio da f[r]onte. Ponlle este emprasto e teñao ata que se exuguen os ollos e, quando quiseres tirar este emprasto, mollao con azeite arredor e con agoa caente, e leva[n]tao levemente.

1409, G. Pérez Barcala, editor, A tradución galega do "Liber de medicina equorum" de Joradanus Ruffus, Santiago de Compostela: USC, page 183:


vidalla

vidallas (plural)
vidalha (alternative)
vidualla (alternative)

Probably from Latin vitalia. Cognate with Asturian vidaya.


éndez

From Latin index. Doublet of índice and endego. Cognate with Italian endice.


xasmín

Etymology tree
Middle Persian yʾsmn'
Classical Persian یَاسَمِین (yāsamīn)bor.
Arabic يَاسَمِين (yāsamīn)bor.
French jasminbor.?
Galician xasmín
Probably from French jasmin, from Arabic يَاسَمِين (yāsamīn).


cadelo

gl-noun

cadelo m (plural cadelos, feminine cadela, feminine plural cadelas)

cadelos (plural)
cadela (feminine)
cadelas (feminine plural)

Attested since the 15th century. From Latin catellus.


apneísta

apneísta m or f by sense (plural apneístas)


péntatlon

From Ancient Greek πένταθλον (péntathlon), from πέντε (pénte, “five”) + ἆθλον (âthlon, “prize of a contest”).


igrexario

igrexarios (plural)
glisario (alternative)
grixario (alternative)
igresario (alternative)
ilesario (alternative)
igrejário (alternative)

Ultimately
from Medieval Latin ecclesiarius, from ecclesia (“church”).

lands belonging to a church or to the Church


teixugueira

teixugueiras (plural)
tanxugueira (alternative)
tenxugueira (alternative)

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese teysugeyra (attested since the 13th century). By surface analysis, teixugo (“badger”) + -eira. Cognate with Portuguese texugueira.


avogado das silveiras

gl-noun

avogado das silveiras m (plural avogados das silveiras)

Attested since the 19th century; literally, "bramble attorney".

(derogatory) a person with no formal education on law, but who boast of their knowledge on this subject


coitela

coitelas (plural)
cuitela (alternative)
cutela (alternative)
cutiela (alternative)

Attested since circa 1370. From coitelo.

¿Galicia? ... ¿Ónd'stá? ¿Ónde vai a nosa fermosa e podente Galicia? ¿Ónde pára? ¿ónde? aquela casta d'héroes fartos qu'o mesmo tremaron as follas das súas coitelas diante das naceós veciñas, acoradas, escorrentadas, por os bárbaros e a mouramia

1859, J. Domínguez d'Esquerdo, Coroas e cadeas do fidalgo povo galicián:

Galicia? Where are you? What have become of our beauty a strong Galicia? Where it is now? Where that lineage of lavish heroes who waved their blades before the neighbouring nations, frightened, driven away by the barbarians and the Moors?


pan de sapo

pans de sapo (plural)
pan de cobra (alternative)
pan de raposo (alternative)


cerrizo

cerrizos (plural)
cernizo (alternative)
sarnizo (alternative)
zarrizo (alternative)

Either from cerro + -izo, or from cerne + izo.


coitelada

Attested since the 14th century. From coitelo + -ada; compare Spanish cuchillada.


gouño

From *acauniu, from a local Celtic substrate language, from Proto-Celtic *akaunon (“stone”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éḱmō. Doublet of con and coio.


panterlo

Attested since the 18th century. Unknown.


barronca

barroncas (plural)
barreonca (alternative)
barrionca (alternative)

Unknown. Probably from a substrate language: see barro (“clay; mud”).


hispanofalante

hispanofalante m or f by sense (plural hispanofalantes)


anglofalante

anglofalante m or f by sense (plural anglofalantes)

Anglophone, English-speaker (One who speaks English)


festeiro

festeiro m (plural festeiros, feminine festeira, feminine plural festeiras)

festeiros (plural)
festeira (feminine)
festeiras (feminine plural)


abrazadeira

abrazadeiras (plural)
abraçadeira (alternative)

hose clamp, hose clip, (UK) Jubilee clip


ripote

From ripar (“to scrape together”) + -ote.


agasallo

agasallos (plural)
agasalho (alternative)

[ɑ.ɣ̞ɑˈs̺a̠.ɟʊ]

[ɑ.ɣ̞ɑˈs̺a̠.ɟʊ]

[ɑ.ħɑˈs̺a̠.ɟʊ]

Back-formation from agasallar, ultimately from Vandalic *gasalja.

caress, cuddle, show of affection for pleasing or welcoming others


afiador

a travelling artisan specialized in sharpening knives and tools, usually using a portable grind wheel


cadarme

cadarmes (plural)
cadarmo (alternative)
cadarno (alternative)


hipergamia

hypergamy (act or practice of seeking a spouse of higher socioeconomic status or caste status than oneself)


formigoneira

cement mixer, concrete mixer (a device used in construction in which cement, aggregate and water are slowly mixed together in a revolving drum to form concrete)


serra de sabre

serra de sabre f (plural serras de sabre)


padroádego

padroádegos (plural)
padroádigo (alternative)

[paðɾoˈaðɪɣʊ]

board (a committee that manages the business of a not-for-profit organization)


terrádego

Et mays queremos et prazenos que se os labradores que morarẽ enos dictos lugares de Segelle et Grueyro que vos assy aforamos forẽ a fazer et labrar estiuadas enos dictos montes da dicta Graña de Carnẽes que se veñam a saluo para vos et vos paguen o terradego del.

1474, Andrés Martínez Salazar, editor, Documentos gallegos de los siglos XIII al XVI, A Coruña: Casa de la Misericordia, page 153:

And we want, and it pleases us, that if the farmers that live in that places names Seselle and Brueiro, that we rent to you, went to slash and burn in the aforementioned hills belonging to the Farm of Carnes, that they can came safely unto you and they shall pay to you the corresponding rents

(historical, law) rent paid for a rustic property


morriñada

morriñadas (plural)
murriñada (alternative)

(collective) fragments and litter left over in the firewood bin


pneumonía

Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin pneumonia, from Ancient Greek πνευμονία (pneumonía).


guerrilleiro

gl-noun

guerrilleiro m (plural guerrilleiros, feminine guerrilleira, feminine plural guerrilleiras)

guerrilleiros (plural)
guerrilleira (feminine)
guerrilleiras (feminine plural)


firmedume

From Old Galician-Portuguese firmidũe, firmedũe, firmadume (13th century), from Medieval Latin firmitudine. By surface analysis, firme (“firm”) + -dume.


engratidume

Attested since the 14th century (engratidũe). Semi-learned borrowing from Latin ingratitūdō.


moitedume

Attested since the 13th century (muytedũe). Semi-learned borrowing from Latin multitūdō. Compare Portuguese multidão, Spanish muchedumbre.


serra de cinta

gl-noun

serra de cinta f (plural serras de cinta)


juntança

reintegrationist spelling of xuntanza (“a meeting, a reunion”)


centeeira

centeeiras (plural)
centieira (alternative)


nisco

a very small part or portion of something, morsel


tebra

13th century. From Old Galician-Portuguese tẽevras (Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin tenebrae, tenebrās. Cognate with Portuguese trevas and Spanish tinieblas.

(singular of tebras) darkness, absence of light


axencia de noticias

axencia de noticias f (plural axencias de noticias)


tempada

(television) season, series (group of episodes of a television broadcast)


cuartos de final

(sports, soccer) quarter finals, quarterfinals


oitavos de final

(sports, soccer) round of 16, last sixteen (the round before the quarterfinal)


dezaseisavos de final

dezaseisavos de final m pl (plural only)

(sports, soccer) round of 32, round of thirty two, last 32, (nonstandard) thirty second final (the round before the round of 16)


masaxeador

masaxeador m (plural masaxeadores, feminine masaxeadora, feminine plural masaxeadoras)

masaxeadores (plural)
masaxeadora (feminine)
masaxeadoras (feminine plural)


reduflación

Calque of English shrinkflation, from a blend of redución + inflación.


vixilia

From Old Galician-Portuguese vigilia (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), learned borrowing from Latin vigilia.


estrela da fartura

estrela da fartura f (plural estrelas da fartura)

Literally, “star of plenty”, or more loosely translated as “star of abundance”.


seistra

seistras (plural)
saestra (alternative)
seestra (alternative)

From Old Galician-Portuguese sẽestra, ultimately from Latin sinistra.


troiteiro

gl-noun

troiteiro m (plural troiteiros, feminine troiteira, feminine plural troiteiras)

troiteiros (plural)
troiteira (feminine)
troiteiras (feminine plural)
truiteiro (alternative)

[tɾoɪ̯ˈteɪ̯ɾʊ]


pateiro

European spider crab
European spider crab


doazón

From Old Galician-Portuguese doaçon (13th century, used by the Galician Paio Gómez Chariño), from Latin donatiō.


cantallao

cantallaos (plural)
cantallau (alternative)

Attested since 1843. Blend of canto + callao.

anque ‘n a boca lle metan
un cantallau com’a un còcho
cando vai a chamusquèira


raspiñeiro

raspiñeiro m (plural raspiñeiros, feminine raspiñeira, feminine plural raspiñeiras)

raspiñeiros (plural)
raspiñeira (feminine)
raspiñeiras (feminine plural)

Os presentes son testigos
d’o que suceder m’acaba
è de com’Anton Portèla
de raspiñèiro me trata.

those present are witnesses
of what has just happened to me
and as how Antón Portela
treat me like I am a thief


peitugazo

Attested since 1840. From peituga (“breast”) + -azo.


zoupada

Attested since 1843. From zoupar + -ada.


encaldada

thick broth used to feed animals after giving birth

broth prepared with leftovers and rests and used to feed the animals


pitacega

pitacegas (plural)
pita cega (alternative)

[ˌpitaˈθɛɣɐ]

Attested since the 18th century: pita (“hen”) + cega (“blind”).


cabra cega

[ˌkɑβɾaˈθɛɣɐ]

[ˌkɑβɾaˈsɛħɐ]

Attested since the 19th century: cabra (“goat”) + cega (“blind”). Compare pitacega.


pé de boi

[ˈpɛ ðeˈβɔi̯]

Oenanthe crocata
Wikispecies:Oenanthe crocata

hemlock water dropwort (Oenanthe crocata)


rabecha

Que rabecha colleu o meniño no centro comercial!

What a tantrum the child threw at the mall!


vantaxe

Attested since the 13th century (avantaje). Borrowed from Old French avantage.

c1350, K. M. Parker (ed.), Historia Troyana. Santiago: Instituto "Padre Sarmiento", page 108

And the ones that are in their country have a very large advantage over those that are outside, because every man who defends his city always doubles his strength against everyone who comes from outside

Et quẽ en sua terra esta tem moy grande avantage dos que estam de fora ca todo õme que se defende de sua villa dobla se lle sẽpre a força contra todos los que veem de fora.


tatexo

tatexo m (plural tatexos, feminine tatexa, feminine plural tatexas)

tatexos (plural)
tatexa (feminine)
tatexas (feminine plural)


forquito

Ó redor da lareira, na cuciña da casa máis chea do logar de Outeiro, xunta estaba a familia. O patrón sentado no escano cos pés fóra e por riba das zocas, quentábase, ó mesmo tempo que, cun forquito bandexaba os toxos, que dempois metía pra debaixo do caldeiro; a muller, sentada no chan, partía os cachelos pró caldo, ia herdeira, filla úneca daquel xuntoiro e xoia daquela casa, fiaba na roca os cerros, prá tea do ano.

The family was reunited around the hearth, in the kitchen of the fullest house of the hamlet of Outeiro. The head of the household was sitting on the bench, his feet out and on the clogs, warming while he was shaking the furzes with a poke before placing them under the cauldron; the wife, sitting on the ground, was snapping the potatoes for the broth, and the heir, only child of that union and that home's jewel, was spinning the flax, for the year's cloth.


xuntoiro

xuntoiros (plural)
juntoiro (alternative)

Attested since circa 1800. From xunta (“meeting”) or xuntar (“to unite, reunite”) and -oiro.


benfeito

benfeitos (plural)
ben feito (alternative)

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese benfeyto.

inh+

E nun peródico amerecano, El Noticiero Gallego, lemos: «Astra d'agora os nosos homes políticos perderon o tempo en discusiós moi lindas, prenuncians'oraciós subrimes i arrebatadoras; pro ¿qué benfeitos alcanzou o país? Ningún.»

In an American periodical, The Galician Gazetteer, we read: "Until now our politicians have lost their time in beautiful debates; they pronounce discourses that are sublime and captivating; but, what are the benefits that the country has obtained? None.


boureo

Attested since the 19th century. Deverbal from bourear.


corrosco

corroscos (plural)
churrusco (alternative)
currusco (alternative)

Attested since the 19th century. Probably onomatopoeic: compare Spanish cuscurro.


larchán

gl-noun

larchán m (plural larcháns, feminine larchana, feminine plural larchanas)

larcháns (plural)
larchana (feminine)
larchanas (feminine plural)


fillo único

fillo único m (plural fillos únicos, feminine filla única, feminine plural fillas únicas)

fillos únicos (plural)
filla única (feminine)
fillas únicas (feminine plural)

The family was reunited around the hearth, in the kitchen of the fullest house of the hamlet of Outeiro. The head of the household was sitting on the bench, his feet out and on the clogs, warming while he was shaking the furzes with a poke before placing them under the cauldron; the wife, sitting on the ground, was snapping the potatoes for the broth, and the heir, [she-]only child of that union and that home's jewel, was spinning the flax on the distaff, for that year's cloth.


filla única

The family was reunited around the hearth, in the kitchen of the fullest house of the hamlet of Outeiro. The head of the household was sitting on the bench, his feet out and on the clogs, warming while he was shaking the furzes with a poke before placing them under the cauldron; the wife, sitting on the ground, was snapping the potatoes for the broth, and the heir, only child of that union and that home's jewel, was spinning the flax on the distaff, for that year's cloth.

female equivalent of fillo único (“only child”)


comiño

From Latin cuminum, from Ancient Greek κύμινον (kúminon), a Semitic borrowing ultimately to be traced to Akkadian 𒂵𒈬𒉡 (Ú.GAMUN /kamūnu/, “cumin”).


refaixo

Galán que estás no canizo
bota castañas pra baixo
que anque non teño mandil
apárochas no refaixo.

1894, Luís Otero Pimentel, Truada de rapaces:

Gallant up there in the loft
throw some chestnuts down,
even if I have no apron
I'll catch them with my petticoat

Amáñanse poñéndose moitos refaixos e cruzan os panos por diante o seo; todo pra aparentar máis gordas e rebustas: en vez de poñer as carnes ó aire, tápa-nas percurando aparecer que elas teñen moitas, aínda que falten pola casa. Dempois andan azoroñando a carón dos mozos i ós que queren pescar físga-nos polo rabiño do ollo. Si eles se fan de rogar entón carexan as mozas astra que miran pra elas

1908, Xesús Rodríguez López, Gallegadas, page 135:

They dress up with many underskirts and they cross the clothes before their bosom; all that so they seem fatter and more robust: instead of showing the flesh they cover it attempting to look as if they have much, even if it lacks at home. After this they wander around the boys, and the ones they want to fish, they catch them by the corner of the eye. If they play hard to get, then they speak together loudly till the boys look at them


subidoiro

From subir (“to go up”) + -doiro, "place where".

flight of steps (sometimes, a single step)


doncela

From Old Galician-Portuguese donzela, from Vulgar Latin *domnicella, from Latin domina. Compare Portuguese donzela, Old Occitan donçela, Spanish doncella, French demoiselle.


verderolo

verderolos (plural)
verdeirolo (alternative)
verderol (alternative)
verderón (alternative)

[beɾðeˈɾɔlʊ]

Chloris chloris
Chloris chloris#Translingual


carricanta

A compound carri (“cart”) + canta (“sings”).


maruxiña

From Maruxa (“Molly”) + -iña, literally “Little Molly”


reirrei

reirreis (plural)
arrenrén (alternative)
rei-rei (alternative)
renren (alternative)

At face value, a reduplication of rei (“king”) because of its use in children play.


condoito

Attested since 1370. From Latin conductus. Compare Spanish conducho.


lobiño

lobiños (plural)
lobinho (alternative)
lubiño (alternative)

From lobo (“wolf”) + -iño, "little wolf".


canciño

gl-noun

canciño m (plural canciños, feminine cadeliña, feminine plural cadeliñas)

canciños (plural)
cadeliña (feminine)
cadeliñas (feminine plural)

Dempois vin dúas lavandeiras que depenicaban unha espiga de trigo na leira de Xan de Pedreira, unha pomba que voaba pró souto de Fonte Boa, unha péga que fuxía de un lagarteiro, catro corvos que espaturraban un canciño morto na carballeira, un melro que asubiaba entre as follas dun cereixo, un carpinteiro que facía o burato pró seu niño; e unha laverca que rebulía no aire, con unha miñoquiña no pico.

After this I saw two wagtails which were pecking a wheat spike at the field of Xan de Pedreira, a dove flying to the wood of Fonte Boa, a magpie fleeing from a kestrel, four ravens which were clawing at a dead pup at the oak grove, a blackbird whistling in the leaves of a cherry tree, a woodpecker making the hole of its nest; and a lark fluttering in the air with a little earthworm in its beak.


faltriqueira

Alternative form of faldriqueira (“bag, pouch”)


rolda

Attested since 1370, but its derivative, roldar, since the 13th century. From Latin rotula. Doublet of rolla and rótula.

turn (a chance to do or to use something in sequence with others)


cugulo

heap (for example, of grain) formed when overfilling a container


pichola

jug with a capacity of approximately a litre


pichola

A diminutive (-ola) of pixa (“penis”). Compare Sicilian piciolla.


Carriño

From Carro (“Cart”) + -iño, "Little Cart".

víase sin nube algunha o ceo azul, víanse as estreliñas todas pendentes del, alá no medio o carriño e non moi lonxe as tres marías
You could see, no cloud at all, the blue sky; you could see the stars, all hanging from it; there, in the middle, the Little Dipper and, not that far, the Three Sisters

1911, Francisco Potel Pardal, Costumes da Terriña:


estriga

Probably deverbal from estrigar, from Latin extricare (“to disentangle”). Alternatively from Suevic, from Proto-West Germanic *strīkan, from Proto-Germanic *strīkaną, from Proto-Indo-European *streyg- (“to stroke, rub, press”).

der

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

1911, Francisco Portela Pérez, O pé da lareira:

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


gaioto

gl-noun

gaioto m (plural gaiotos, feminine gaiota, feminine plural gaiotas)

gaiotos (plural)
gaiota (feminine)
gaiotas (feminine plural)

Tiñan cinco fillos; dous gaiotiños que andaban na escola, un deprendendo o catón i o outro a cartilla dos cristos. Os outros tres, un era de peito i os dous restantes inda andaban de refaixo.

1887, Rufino Ribera Losada, O conto da lebre:

They had five children: two kids who were at school, one learning how to read and write and the other primer. The other three, one was a babe in arms, the remaining two still used diapers


raioto

raioto m (plural raiotos, feminine raiota, feminine plural raiotas)

raiotos (plural)
raiota (feminine)
raiotas (feminine plural)


rapazolo

rapazolo m (plural rapazolos, feminine rapazola, feminine plural rapazolas)

rapazolos (plural)
rapazola (feminine)
rapazolas (feminine plural)

Attested since the 19th century. From rapaz (“kid”) + -olo.


neno de peito

neno de peito m (plural nenos de peito, feminine nena de peito, feminine plural nenas de peito)

nenos de peito (plural)
nena de peito (feminine)
nenas de peito (feminine plural)

Attested since circa 1750. Literally, “child of breast”.


incoerência

reintegrationist spelling of incoherencia


nenez

Attested since 1923. From neno (“child”) + -ez. Compare Spanish niñez.


raparigo

raparigo m (plural raparigos, feminine rapariga, feminine plural raparigas)

raparigos (plural)
rapariga (feminine)
raparigas (feminine plural)

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese raparigo.


cúa

Borrowed from Catalan cua. Doublet of cola.


cantroxo

Attested since circa 1750. Related to Spanish cantueso, perhaps from a Vulgar Latin *chamaetusius, from Ancient Greek χαμαί (khamaí, “on the earth, ground”) θύος (thúos, “burnt offering”), meaning "incense of the earth"

der

Lavandula stoechas
Lavandula stoechas#Translingual


camoesa

camoesas (plural)
mazá camoesa (alternative)

Attested since 1473. From the parish of Camos, anciently Camões, + -esa.

huna çesta de maçaas camoeses ou d'ourantes.

1473, M. Romaní Martínez & M. Rodríguez Suárez (2003), Libro tumbo de pergamino. Un códice medieval del monasterio de Oseira. Santiago de Compostela: Tórculo, page 62

a basket of apples from Camos or from Ourantes

a local and very appreciated variety of apple


currusco

Alternative form of corrosco (“crouton”)


barqueta

From Old Galician-Portuguese barqueta (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria): barca (“boat”) + -eta.

wooden tray with individual compartments for placing balls of yarn


herbeira

Attested since the 13th century (herueyro). From herba + -eira.


chandarme

chandarmes (plural)
chindarme (alternative)
xandarme (alternative)
xendarme (alternative)

Ultimately from French gendarme (“soldier”).

Scomberesox saurus
Wikispecies:Scomberesox saurus

saury, Atlantic saury (Scomberesox saurus)

Belone belone
Belone belone#Translingual


toxedo

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese tojedo (attested, in local Medieval Latin documents, as togeto, since the 11th century). By surface analysis, toxo (“gorse”) + -edo, "place with".


salgadura

Attested since 1812. From salgar (“to salt”) + -dura.


márdea

márdeas (plural)
marde (alternative)
márdeña (alternative)

Unknown. Perhaps from a substrate form *mardena, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mórǵs (“edge, boundary, border”).


treita

each strip of terrain that is marked in a field before sowing it

a path in the mountains designed to move down trunks or minerals


enxido

Alternative form of eixido (“vegetable garden”)


lúparo

From Medieval Latin lupulus. Compare Italian luppolo, Portuguese lúpulo and Spanish lúpulo.

Humulus lupulus
Humulus lupulus#Translingual

(botany) hop (plant whose flowers are used in ale brewing, Humulus lupulus)


estremeiro

Attested since 1913. From estremo (“boundary”) + -eiro.

boundary in between two contiguous properties


albitorno

Unknown. At face value a compound of albo (“white”) and tornar (“to turn”).

Saponaria officinalis
Saponaria officinalis#Translingual


caracocha

[kɑɾaˈkɔt͡ʃɐ]

Unknown. Perhaps from a substrate language.


tioira

tioiras (plural)
teoira (alternative)
tioura (alternative)

From *teloria, from Latin telum (“dart”). Compare Spanish telera.


vinculeiro

gl-noun

vinculeiro m (plural vinculeiros, feminine vinculeira, feminine plural vinculeiras)

vinculeiros (plural)
vinculeira (feminine)
vinculeiras (feminine plural)

(law) only child or, usually, primogenital who is to inherit the family's home or indivisible properties


tallante

tallantes (plural)
talhante (alternative)

From the old present participle of tallar (“to cut”).


queixeiro

queixeiro m (plural queixeiros, feminine queixeira, feminine plural queixeiras)

queixeiros (plural)
queixeira (feminine)
queixeiras (feminine plural)


belaluz

belaluces (plural)
veladuz (alternative)
velaluz (alternative)

Thymus mastichina
Wikispecies:Thymus mastichina


anceio

Back-formation from ansiar. Compare Portuguese anseio.


desexo

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese desejo, from Early Medieval Latin dēsideus (“desire”), from Latin dēsidia (“sloth, debauchery”). Compare Portuguese desejo, and Spanish deseo.

inh

Se os desexos fosen valedeiros, os viláns serían cabaleiros

If wishes were to be make true, villains would be knights


bioca

Unknown. Probably from a substrate language.


vertedoiro

vertedoiros (plural)
vertedeiro (alternative)

From verter + -doiro. Compare Portuguese vertedouro.


furrica

Deverbal from furricar (“to shit (diarrhea)”), from Latin foria (“diarrhea”).

deverbal

Toca, gueiteiro, c'o demo t'afogue

Play, bagpiper, I hope that the devil chokes you:
shit in the pipe, diarrhea in the bag

diarrhea (watery or very soft excrement)


cunqueiro

gl-noun

cunqueiro m (plural cunqueiros, feminine cunqueira, feminine plural cunqueiras)

cunqueiros (plural)
cunqueira (feminine)
cunqueiras (feminine plural)


vertixe

Borrowed from Portuguese vertigem, from Latin vertigo.


biouteiro

Alternative form of bieiteiro (“elder, Sambucus nigra”)


tascador

tascador m (plural tascadores, feminine tascadora, feminine plural tascadoras)

tascadores (plural)
tascadora (feminine)
tascadoras (feminine plural)


millarengo

millarengos (plural)
millarenga (alternative)

[miʎaˈɾeŋɡʊ]

Linaria cannabina
Linaria cannabina#Translingual

(birds) linnet (Linaria cannabina, syn. Carduelis cannabina)


nabiña

nabiñas (plural)
nabinha (alternative)
nabía (alternative)
nebiña (alternative)

Sementei nabiña vèlla
n'a tèrra non formentou.
¿Qu'hei de facer, de min triste,

I planted old turnip seeds
on the ground, didn't grew.
Pity me, what I'm gonna do
if I ran out of new one?


coíña

From proto-Galician *colina: col (“cabbage”) + -iña.


cobertoiro

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin coopertōrium.


cobertoira

pelt which covers the oxen head when yoked


ensinanza

teaching (the profession of teaching; the activity that a teacher does when s/he teaches)


xácea

Probably from Arabic جِسْر (jisr, “[wooden] bridge”): compare Classical Syriac ܓܫܪܐ (“bridge; beam”), from the same Akkadian root. Cognate with Spanish jácena and Catalan jàssera.


xarampón

xarampóns (plural)
sarampón (alternative)

Probably from Late Latin sirimpiō (Isidore of Seville), further etymology unknown. Compare Portuguese sarampão and Spanish sarampión.


pílula do día seguinte

pílula do día seguinte f (plural pílulas do día seguinte)


pesadume

Attested since the 19th century. From pesar + -dume.


esterqueiro

From Latin stercorārius, or either from esterco (“dung, manure”) + -eiro.


caroca

Unknown. Probably from a substrate language and affixed with -oca.

¡Basta, basta! Vosté é sorteira, tía Suíña. Ben sabe que esas meiguerías son carocas que Dios condena. Peca quen as usa, e peca moito máis quen as espende.

1922, Armando Cotarelo Valledor, Trebón:

«Stop, stop! You are a sorceress, aunt Suíña. You know well that those witcheries are blatant lies that God condemns. Whoever uses them sins, and sins even more whoever deals them.»


meiguería

meiguerías (plural)
meigaría (alternative)

«Stop, stop! You a sorceress, aunt Suíña. You know well that those witcheries are blatant lies that God condemns. Whoever uses them sins, and sins even more whoever deals them.»


bisarma

Attested since circa 1350. From Old French guisarme, from a Germanic language.

c1350, Kevin M. Parker (ed.), Historia Troyana. Santiago: Instituto "Padre Sarmiento", page 121

they garnished splendidly the ships' gunwales with javelins and helms and shields and spears and darts and battle-axes and crossbows and gisarmes and swords

garneçerõ moy bẽ os bornos das naues de azcũas et de elmos et de escudos et de lanças et de dardos et de fachas et de balestas et de bisarmas et de espadas

a polearm: kind of long shafted sickle with a back hook which was still in use during the early 20th century among the Galician peasants