igrexa

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese igreja, a semi-learned borrowing from Latin ecclēsia (“church”), from Ancient Greek ἐκκλησία (ekklēsía, “congregation”). Compare Portuguese igreja, and Spanish iglesia.

der

O bautizo celebrarase na igrexa de santa Lucía.

The baptism will be celebrated in the church of St. Lucia.

(Christianity) church (building or organization)


xaneiro

xaneiros (plural)
xeneiro (alternative)
xineiro (alternative)
janeiro (alternative)

From Old Galician-Portuguese janeiro, janeyro, from Vulgar Latin *jann(u)arius, jenuarius, from Latin Iānuārius.


febreiro

febreiros (plural)
ferbeiro (alternative)
frebeiro (alternative)
fevreiro (alternative)

From Old Galician-Portuguese fevereiro, fevreyro, febreyro, from Late Latin Febrārius, from Latin Februārius.


xuño

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese junio, junyo, from Latin iūnius.


xullo

From Old Galician-Portuguese jullo, julio, from Latin iulius.


coleccionista

gl-noun

coleccionista m or f by sense (plural coleccionistas)


espazo

From Old Galician-Portuguese espaço (independently attested in both corpora), from Latin spatium. Cognate with Portuguese espaço and Spanish espacio.

Damos et arrendamos por espazo de vijnte et noue annos

1282, A. Martínez Salazar, editor, Documentos gallegos de los siglos XIII al XVI, A Coruña: Casa de la Misericordia, page 86:

We give and rent to you for space of twenty and nine years


planeta anano

planeta anano m (plural planetas ananos)


eixe

Attested since the 13th century. From Latin axis (“axletree”) (with change of declension), from Proto-Italic *aksis, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱs- (“axis”). Cognate with Portuguese eixo and Spanish eje.


mensaxeiro

Attested since circa 1300 (messageyro; the spelling mensajeyro since circa 1375). From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Old French messagier, from message (“message”), from Late Latin missāticum. Compare Portuguese mensageiro, Spanish mensajero, English messenger.

O dito conçello, justiças et jurados, mandaron ao dito Garçia Rodriges, procurador, que enbiase hũu mesajeiro que fose a Pontevedra et Noya et Padron a levar cartas que o dito conçello enbiava aas ditas vilas et que mandavan que fose reçibido en conta ao dito Garçia Rodriges os maravedis que dese a o dito mensajeiro para sua despensa

1416, A. Rodríguez González (ed.), Libro do Concello de Santiago (1416-1422). Santiago de Compostela: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 9

The mentioned council and council members ordered that the mentioned García Rodríguez, agent, send a messenger to Pontevedra and Noia and Padrón, carrying letters which the mentioned council send to those towns, and ordered to record in an account the marabedis that Garcia Rodriguez shall give to this messenger for his expenses


excentricidade

excentricidade f (plural excentricidades)


proximidade

Learned borrowing from Latin proximitātem.


arredor

From Old Galician-Portuguese arredor (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin *ad retrō (literally “to the rear”).

inh

the area surrounding someone or something

headland, strip of land around a farm plot which is usually left fallow


cínico

gl-noun

cínico m (plural cínicos, feminine cínica, feminine plural cínicas)

cínicos (plural)
cínica (feminine)
cínicas (feminine plural)

From Latin cynicus, from Ancient Greek κυνικός (kunikós), probably from the name of the Cynosarges, a public gymnasium in Athens where Antisthenes taught.


titáns

[t̪iˈt̪ɑŋs̺]


corindón

corindóns (plural)
corindo (alternative)
coríndon (alternative)


lévedo

lévedos (plural)
leldo (alternative)
lévado (alternative)

From Old Galician-Portuguese levedo, from Vulgar Latin *levĭtum (“yeast, sourdough”), from Latin levātus (“lifted”). Compare Portuguese lêvedo, Spanish leudo.


topacio

From Latin topazius, from Ancient Greek τόπαζος (tópazos).


cinabrio

From Latin cinnabaris, from Ancient Greek κιννάβαρι (kinnábari).


lignito

From French lignite, from Latin lignum (“firewood”).


amplificación

Learned borrowing from Latin amplificātiōnem.


panela

From Old Galician-Portuguese [Term?], from Vulgar Latin *pannella, from Vulgar Latin panna (“pan”), from the same origin that English pan.


concuñado

gl-noun

concuñado m (plural concuñados, feminine concuñada, feminine plural concuñadas)

concuñados (plural)
concuñada (feminine)
concuñadas (feminine plural)


bispel

miter, method of cutting the extreme of a wooden piece (a board, a pole or a stick), usually sawed with an angle of 45º, to join with another one cut the same way meeting in an angle of 90º


estabilidade

Learned borrowing from Latin stabilitas, stabilitatem.


baixo

From Old Galician-Portuguese baixo, from Late Latin bassus (“low, short”).


aceno

From Old Galician-Portuguese açãa (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Late Latin cinnus (“wink”). Cognate with Spanish ceño.


empaquetamento

gl-noun

empaquetamento m (plural empaquetamentos)

packing (method or result of placing into a limited space)


obtención

Learned borrowing from Latin obtentiōnem.


esmeralda

Attested since circa 1300. Possibly through the intermediate of Old French esmeralde (Modern French émeraude), from Vulgar Latin *smeralda, *smaraldus, alteration of Latin smaragdus, from Ancient Greek σμάραγδος (smáragdos), of Semitic origin.

Et os nomes delas son estes: carbũcolo, sardis, cafil, amatista, berilo, topás, grisólitos, esmeralda, brasmo, rrobj, calçedonja, cristal

1370, R. Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 436:


dureza

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


laranxeira

laranxeiras (plural)
laranjeira (alternative)


laverca

[laˈβ̞ɛɾ.kɐ]

Attested since at least 1295, as a nickname (Maria Laverca). From Suevic *lāwerka, or from Gothic *𐌻𐌰𐌹𐍅𐌴𐍂𐌺𐍉 (*laiwērkō), from Proto-Germanic *laiwarikǭ.

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.

1894, Luís Otero Pimentel, Truada de rapaces:

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.


saxofón

saxofóns (plural)
saxofone (alternative)


radioastrónomo

gl-noun

radioastrónomo m (plural radioastrónomos, feminine radioastrónoma, feminine plural radioastrónomas)

radioastrónomos (plural)
radioastrónoma (feminine)
radioastrónomas (feminine plural)


xamón

xamóns (plural)
jamom (alternative)
jamão (alternative)

Ultimately from French jambon, perhaps through Spanish jamón.


xardíns

[ʃɐɾˈð̞iŋs̺]


xastre

xastre m (plural xastres, feminine xastra, feminine plural xastras)

xastres (plural)
xastra (feminine)
xastras (feminine plural)

[ˈʃas̺.t̪ɾɪ]

First attested in 1401. Borrowed from Spanish sastre, ultimately from Latin sartor.


xuíz

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese juiz, from Latin iūdicem, jūdicem. Compare Portuguese juiz.


xurisdición

xurisdicións (plural)
jurisdiçom (alternative)
jurisdição (alternative)
xurisdicción (alternative)

Learned borrowing from Latin iūrisdictiōnem.


unicornio

unicornios (plural)
unicórnio (alternative)


etmoide

From Ancient Greek ἠθμοειδής (ēthmoeidḗs, “like a strainer or sieve”).


vómer

Learned borrowing from Latin vōmer (“ploughshare”).


maxilar superior

gl-noun

maxilar superior m (plural maxilares superiores)

(anatomy) the maxilla, the bone of the upper jaw


lactante

a baby, usually from one to twelve months old


neno

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

nenos (plural)
nena (feminine)
nenas (feminine plural)

From Old Galician-Portuguese neno, from a Vulgar Latin *ninnus, probably imitative of infantile language. Compare Spanish niño, Asturian neñu, Italian nino.

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

boy; male child, especially before puberty

Et outros muytos nenos et donas et dõzelas tirarõ os gregos do tenplo, et nõnos quiserõ matar, mays leuárõnos cõsigo pera Greçia

1370, R. Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana. Introducción e texto, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 661:

And the Greek took many other children and women and young ladies from the temple, and they didn't want to kill them, but they took them away to Greece


columnas vertebrais

columna vertebral
columna vertebral#Galician


vértebra cervical

vértebra cervical f (plural vértebras cervicais)


vértebras cervicais

vértebra cervical
vértebra cervical#Galician


vértebra torácica

vértebra torácica f (plural vértebras torácicas)


vértebras torácicas

vértebra torácica
vértebra torácica#Galician


vértebra lumbar

vértebra lumbar f (plural vértebras lumbares)


vértebras lumbares

vértebra lumbar
vértebra lumbar#Galician


inserción

Learned borrowing from Latin īnsertiōnem.


pelve

Learned borrowing from Latin pelvis (“bowl”).


apéndice xifoide

gl-noun

apéndice xifoide m (plural apéndices xifoides)


apéndices xifoides

apéndice xifoide
apéndice xifoide#Galician


costela

costelas (plural)
costrela (alternative)

From a diminutive of Latin costa (“side”): costa + -ela. Compare Portuguese costela and Spanish costilla.


antebrazo

antebrazos (plural)
antebraço (alternative)


cúbito

Learned borrowing from Latin cubitum (“elbow”). Compare the doublet cóbado.


falanxe

(anatomy, usually in the plural) phalanges


metacarpo

(anatomy) metacarpus (entire central hand)

(anatomy) metacarpal (any bone of the palm)


xeonllo

xeonllos (plural)
xeollo (alternative)
xoello (alternative)
xollo (alternative)
xonllo (alternative)
joelho (alternative)

From Old Galician-Portuguese gẽolho, geonllo, gionllo, jeonllo, from Late Latin genuculum, alteration of Latin geniculum, diminutive of genū (“knee”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵónu.
Cognate with Portuguese joelho and Spanish hinojo.

Johan de Naue, alfayate deſta mééſma villa, eſtãdo en geonloſ preſo cõ hũa cadẽa na gargãta τ húús ferros nos péés, ante Johan Beya, alcayde de Monte Rey por Roy Paez de Bema que o queriã yr juſtiçar τ matar

1332, 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., p. 155

Johan de Nave, tailor of this town, being on his knees, prisoner with a chain on his neck and fetters on his feet, before Johan Beya, mayor of Monterrei in the name of Roi Paez de Bema, who wanted to sentence him to death and to kill him

1435, A. López Carreira, Fragmentos de notarios, doc. E2-8

... they approached said Goterre Afonso and that the mentioned Fernando de Mourelos extracted the sword from its scabbard against said Goterre Afonso, for killing him; and his companions, as they saw this, helped him against said Goterre Afonso, and consequently he gave him a large wound in the left leg, in which he injured him from under the knee till the heel

... que aderençaran ao dito Goterre Afonso et que o dito Fernando de Mourelos que sacara a espada da beyna contra o dito Goterre Afonso por lo matar, et seus conpaneiros como lo viran sacar que o ajudaran contra o dito Goterre Afonso, do qual lle logo deran huna grande ferida en huna perna esqerda, en que o feriran debayxo do gionllo ata o qualquanar


nocello

nocellos (plural)
nacello (alternative)
nacelo (alternative)
nocelo (alternative)
nodello (alternative)

Perhaps a blend of noz (“nut”) and a descendant of Latin nodiculus (“little knot”).


metatarso

(anatomy) metatarsus (entire central foot)

(anatomy) metatarsal (any bone of the central foot)


decadencia

decadencias (plural)
decadência (alternative)

[d̪e.kɑˈð̞ɛn̪.θjɐ]

[d̪e.kɑˈð̞ɛn̪.θjɐ]

decline, decay (deterioration of condition)

decadence (state of moral or artistic decline or deterioration)


pesos e medidas

weights and measures
weights and measures


lóstrego

lóstregos (plural)
lústrigo (alternative)

Attested since 1370. Uncertain etymology. Perhaps from Latin lūstrō (“I purify; I illuminate”) from Latin lūstrum (“sacrifice”); or rather, given the stressed vowel /o/, from Proto-Celtic *lowkstriko-, from Proto-Celtic *lowko- (“bright, light”): compare Welsh lluched (“lightning”) and North Catalan llaucet. Alternatively, deverbal from lostregar, and this irregularly from Latin *lūstricare.
Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“to shine”).


verdade

verdades (plural)
verdá (alternative)
verdae (alternative)
verdai (alternative)

From Old Galician-Portuguese verdade, from Latin vēritātem, accusative singular of vēritās (“truth”).


xanela

From Old Galician-Portuguese janella (“window”), from Vulgar Latin *iānuella, diminutive of Latin iānua (“door, entry”). Cognate with Portuguese janela and Mirandese jinela.


fiestra

fiestras (plural)
festra (alternative)
fresta (alternative)

From Old Galician-Portuguese fẽestra (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin fenestra. Cognate with Portuguese fresta.

Despoys que passarõ quareenta dias que quedarõ as chuvias, parou mentes Noe cõmo avya ja tẽpo que nõ chouera, et abrio a feestra da arca et enviou o coruo por que se terra ou aruore ou algũa outra cousa achase

c. 1300, R. Martínez López, editor, General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV, Oviedo: Publicacións de Archivum, page 43:

After forty days had passed and the rain stopped, Noah noticed that it has passed some time with no rain and so he opened the windows of the ark and sent the raven to find land or trees or anything


ventá

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese ventãa, from Vulgar Latin *ventāna, derived from Latin ventus (“wind”). Compare Portuguese ventã, venta, and Spanish ventana.


vasoira

vasoiras (plural)
basoira (alternative)
vassoira (alternative)

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Vulgar Latin *versōria, ultimately derived from Latin verrō (“sweep”). Cognate with Portuguese vassoura. More distantly related to Spanish basura (“trash”).


virxe

virxes (plural)
virxen (alternative)
virgem (alternative)

From Old Galician-Portuguese virgen (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), a semi-learned borrowing from Latin virgō, virginem.


imaxinación

imaxinacións (plural)
imaginaçom (alternative)
imaginação (alternative)


tardanza

tardanzas (plural)
tardança (alternative)

From Old Galician-Portuguese tardança (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria): from tardar + -anza.

1350, Kelvin M. Parker (ed.), Historia Troyana. Santiago: Instituto "Padre Sarmiento", page 106

And they don't wanted to do further delay, and they rigged very well their ships

Et nõ quiserõ fazer mays tardança, et aparellarõ moy bem suas naues.


paquistaní

gl-noun

paquistaní m or f by sense (plural paquistanís)


roco

Macrolepiota procera
Macrolepiota procera#Translingual

(mycology) parasol mushroom (Macrolepiota procera)


coagulación

Learned borrowing from Latin coagulatio, coagulationem.


metafísica

Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin metaphysica, methephisica, from Byzantine Greek μεταφυσικά (metaphusiká). See English metaphysics for further etymology.


metafísica

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.


dereito

From Old Galician-Portuguese dereito, from Vulgar Latin *dērēctus, from Latin dīrectus.


sultán

sultáns (plural)
sultám (alternative)
sultão (alternative)

[s̺ul̪ˈt̪ɑŋ]


prefixo

Borrowed from Late Latin praefixum, from Latin praefixus, past participle of praefīgō (“I (fix, fasten, set up) in front”, “I fix on the (end, extremity)”) (from prae- (“before”) + fīgō (“I fix”, “I fasten”, “I affix”)). By surface analysis, pre- + fixo.

(grammar) prefix (letters at the beginning of a word used to modify its meaning)

(telephony) prefix, area code (numbers prefixed to a telephone number to indicate the location of the telephone line)


xeración

xeracións (plural)
xerazón (alternative)
geraçom (alternative)
geração (alternative)

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin generatiō. Cognate with Portuguese geração and Spanish generación.

Seya maldito ata setyma geeraçon todo ome que este meu testamento quiser passar ou enbargar

1294, J. L. Novo Cazón, editor, El priorato santiaguista de Vilar de Donas en la Edad Media (1194-1500), A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 271:

Every man that this, my testament, wants to pass or impound shall be damned till the seventh generation

It. lle mando mays a mia casa forte de Rodeiro. con todas las armas. et bastimento que y esteuer. a tempo de meu finamento. con aquellas maneyras et condiçoes que a min mandou o arcibispo dom Martino. que fique senpre enno Primeyro fillo barom et del enno outro et de huun neto que del descender enno outro por sustituyçon como o eu mellor poso et deuo mandar de dereyto. por sustituyçon et se non oueer y baroes que se torne enna primeyra filla que del descender et a a sua geeraçon.

1368, A. López Ferreiro, editor, Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática, Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 349:

Item, I bequeath my stronghold of Rodeiro, with all the weapons and provisions that happen to be there at the moment of my decease, with the manners and conditions that the archbishop, Don Martiño, ordered to me: that it stays always with the eldest male son, and from him in the other, and from a grandson who from him descends into another, by substitution, as best as I can do and order in the law, by substitution, and if there were no males, that it turns into the eldest daughter that from him descends an in her offsprings

generation, action of producing life; descendence

production, manufacture, action of producing

a generation; group of people of approximately the same age

a period of time measuring groups of descendants


colisión

colisións (plural)
colisom (alternative)
colisão (alternative)

Learned borrowing from Latin collīsiōnem.


intensidade

intenso + -idade. Cf. also Medieval Latin intensitas.


xuventude

xuventudes (plural)
juventude (alternative)

From Latin iuventūtem, accusative singular of iuventus (“youth”), probably a semi-learned term.


parede celular

gl-noun

parede celular f (plural paredes celulares)


membrana celular

membrana celular f (plural membranas celulares)


membranas celulares

membrana celular
membrana celular#Galician


membrana plasmática

membrana plasmática f (plural membranas plasmáticas)


membranas plasmáticas

membrana plasmática
membrana plasmática#Galician


norcoreano

norcoreano m (plural norcoreanos, feminine norcoreana, feminine plural norcoreanas)

norcoreanos (plural)
norcoreana (feminine)
norcoreanas (feminine plural)


surcoreano

surcoreano m (plural surcoreanos, feminine surcoreana, feminine plural surcoreanas)

surcoreanos (plural)
surcoreana (feminine)
surcoreanas (feminine plural)


galeón

galeóns (plural)
galeom (alternative)
galeão (alternative)

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese galeon (13th century, Alfonso X): by surface analysis, galea (“galley”) + -ón. Compare Portuguese galeão.

surf

traditional one or two masted sailboat, with fore-and-aft sails, having up to 20 m of length, similar to a schooner


tecidos

[t̪ɪˈθi.ð̞ʊs̺]

[t̪ɪˈθi.ð̞ʊs̺]


retículo endoplasmático

gl-noun

retículo endoplasmático m (plural retículos endoplasmáticos)

endoplasmic reticulum
endoplasmic reticulum


retículos endoplasmáticos

retículo endoplasmático
retículo endoplasmático#Galician


aparato de Golgi

aparato de Golgi m (plural aparatos de Golgi)


aparatos de Golgi

aparato de Golgi
aparato de Golgi#Galician


citoesqueleto

From cito- (“cyto”) + esqueleto (“skeleton”).


ácidos ribonucleicos

ácido ribonucleico
ácido ribonucleico#Galician


ácidos desoxirribonucleicos

ácido desoxirribonucleico
ácido desoxirribonucleico#Galician


ácido nucleico

ácido nucleico m (plural ácidos nucleicos)


adenosín trifosfato

adenosine triphosphate
adenosine triphosphate

(biochemistry) adenosine triphosphate, ATP


vesícula

Learned borrowing from Latin vēsīcula (“little bladder”).


trigonometría

Learned borrowing from Latin trigonometria, from Ancient Greek τριγωνομετρία (trigōnometría).

der

τριγωνομετρία


pragmática

(linguistics, semiotics) pragmatics (study of the use of the language in a social context)


reprodución

reproduction, procreation (the act of reproducing new individuals biologically)

reproduction, copy, duplicate (a copy of something, as in a piece of art; a duplicate)

A reprodución estaba dañada polos raións na superficie do DVD.

The playback was damaged by scratches on the DVD's surface.

(computing) playback (the replaying of something previously recorded, especially sound or moving images)

A reprodución automática está desactivada de forma predeterminada.

(computing) play (an instance of watching or listening to digital media)

Ese vídeo de YouTube ten 1.000.000 reproduccións.

(Internet) view (an individual viewing of a video by a user)


xerarquía

xerarquías (plural)
jerarquia (alternative)
hierarquia (alternative)


disolución

disolucións (plural)
dissoluçom (alternative)
dissolução (alternative)

Learned borrowing from Latin dissolūtiōnem.


poboación

poboacións (plural)
povoaçom (alternative)
povoação (alternative)

Formed from poboar + -ción, or a semi-learned borrowing from Late Latin populātiō, populātiōnem, from Latin populus (“people”).

slbor

a populated locality, such as villages or cities


comunidade

Learned borrowing from Latin commūnitās, commūnitātem.


xornal

From Old Galician-Portuguese jornal (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin diurnalis. Cognate with Portuguese jornal, Asturian xornal, Spanish jornal, French journal.

Et outrosy, se as casas quaeren ou arderen ou falleçeren en nosas vidas de nos as tres pesoas, por alguna maneira, que nos et os fraires que foren ao dito tenpo en no dito llugar, que as corregamos de pormedeo et tanben todo o outro llavor qual quier que y ouuer mester, que seia prol das ditas casas, que se faça senpre de pormedeo, nos et vos, saluo se for tal llauor que non aia y mester mays que hun jornal, que o façamos nos por nosa custa

1378, M. M. Graña Cid (ed.), Las órdenes mendicantes en el obispado de Mondoñedo. El convento de san Martín de Villaoriente (1374-1500). Separata de Estudios Mindonienses, page 159

And also, if the houses collapse or burn or fail during the lifetime of we three, in any way, then we and the friars that at that time were at that place must correct them, jointly, and also any other work which could be needed for the benefit of these houses, all must be made always jointly, we and you, except if it is such a work that it would take no more than a day's work, them we must make it by ourselves

Mandaron ao dito Bernaldo Yanes que pagase a Alvaro da Rocha, pedreiro, por seu jornal nove maravedis a III dineiros, cada dia

1417, A. Rodríguez González (ed.), Libro do Concello de Santiago (1416-1422). Santiago de Compostela: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 61

They ordered the aforementioned Bernaldo Yanes to pay Álvaro da Rocha, stonemason, as his wage, nine maravedis, each one of III denaries, each day

1447, J. García Oro (1987), "Viveiro en los siglos XIV y XV. La Colección Diplomática de Santo Domingo de Viveiro", Estudios Mindonienses, 3, page 93

he said that that he worked and works, in Vilares which is in this parish, a house with nine jornals of vine with it

diso que el levava e leva en Vilares que he en esta dita freguesia hunna casa e nove jornaes de vinnas con ela

(now regional) a traditional unit of land area originally denoting a day's work in a vineyard


pentagrama

(music) staff, stave (five lines to write music)


xirasol

xirasois (plural)
girassol (alternative)


xenxibre

xenxibres (plural)
xenxebre (alternative)
sinxebra (alternative)
gengibre (alternative)

[ʃenʲˈʃi.β̞ɾɪ]

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese gengibre, q.v. Compare Portuguese gengibre.


xenocidio

xenocidios (plural)
genocídio (alternative)

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


xabaril

Borrowed from Arabic خِنْزِير جَبَلِيّ (ḵinzīr jabaliyy, literally “pig of the mountains”) via Andalusian Arabic.

bor+

خِنْزِير جَبَلِيّ


separatismo

separatism (advocacy for the political separation of a region)


fotosintetizador

gl-noun

fotosintetizador m (plural fotosintetizadores)


saída

From Old Galician-Portuguese saida, sayda, feminine past participle of sair.

a qual dita casa vos aforo como dito he con seu saydo e con todas suas entradas e saydas e perteensas e dereitos

1402, M. C. Sánchez Carrera, editor, El Bajo Miño en el siglo XV. El espacio y los hombres, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 371:

I rent this house to you, with its garden and with all of its entrances and exits and belongings and rights

quando escorrega o pee ao Cauallo na sayda da estada, ou no correr, ou no andar

1409, José Luis Pensado Tomé, editor, Tratado de Albeitaria, page 125:

when the hoof of the horse slips at the exit of the stable, or either when running, or when walking

exit (the act of going out, getting out of a place)

(specifically) an instance of going out of one’s house, workplace or similar to do something

os quales diñeiros gastei en desenbargar os bees e terras que meu señor padre enpeñou a payo gomez de soutomayor vasallo do Rey e señor que foi da casa forte de lantaño para a costa que tebo ennas sahidas que fiso con os demais fidalgos da terra en compañia do señor arçobispo e perlado de santiago don lope de mendoza tio de dona maior de mendoza moller que foi do dito payo gomez contra os mouros da andaluçia fasta que se ganou a cibdad de antequeira ao Rey mouro de granada de chamamento do señor infante don fernando, e tamen enna sahida que eu fise de chamamento de seu sobriño noso señor el Rey don joan e de mandado de meu señor padre en lugar del cando se ganou dos mouros a grande batalla da figeira en donde tamen perdin e me mataron o cabalo e eu sahin ben librado enpero ben ferido de hua saetada enno braço dereito que non a vin curada fasta pasados ben tres meses

1473, A. López Ferreiro, editor, Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática, Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 29:

said money I spent in redeeming the assets and lands that my father pawned to Paio Gómez de Soutomaior, vassal of the King and late lord of the stronghold of Lataño, for the expenses he had in the expeditions that he did together with the other noblemen of the country, in the company of the lord archbishop and prelate of Santiago Don Lope de Mendoza, uncle of lady Maior de Mendoza, late wife of said Paio Gómez, against the Moors of Andalusia until the city of Antequera was won from the Moor king of Granada, thanks to the call of lord Prince Don Fernando; and also in the expedition I did at the call of his nephew our king Don Xoán, at the orders of my father and instead of him, when the great Battle of the Figtree was won to the Moors, where I lost and they killed my horse and I got out safe but badly injured of an arrow shot in the right arm, wound that I saw not cured until more than three months later


expulsión

expulsións (plural)
expulsom (alternative)
expulsão (alternative)

Learned borrowing from Latin expulsio, expulsionem.


cadea

From Old Galician-Portuguese cadea (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin catēna. Cognate with Portuguese cadeia and Spanish cadena.


cadeado

From Old Galician-Portuguese cadẽado (“lock”) (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Late Latin catēnātum, derived from Latin catēna (“chain”).

inh

pareçeu y presente Gonçalvo Fiel, moordomo da dita villa, e presentou ao dito juis, alcaldes, jurado e procuradores, a Gonçalvo de Carcaçia preso dos pees con huus adobes e hũa cadea grosa de ferro fechada con hũu cadeado

1437, A. Rodríguez González (ed.), Livro do Concello de Pontevedra (1431-1463). Pontevedra: Museo de Pontevedra, page 132

there appeared Gonzalvo Fiel, butler of the aforementioned town, to present to the mentioned judge, councilors, juror, and council agent one Gonzalvo of Carcarcía, his feet fettered with some bricks and a thick iron chain which was locked with a padlock


alga vermella

gl-noun

alga vermella f (plural algas vermellas)

algas vermellas (plural)
alga vermelha (alternative)


lonxitude de onda

lonxitude de onda f (plural lonxitudes de onda)


lonxitudes de onda

lonxitude de onda
lonxitude de onda#Galician


saído

no camino que e saydo da vila.

1273, M. Romaní Martínez, editor, La colección diplomática de Santa María de Oseira, Santiago: Tórculo, page 987:

in the road that is the exit of the town

1290, M. Lucas Álvarez P. Lucas Domínguez (eds.), El monasterio de San Clodio do Ribeiro en la Edad Media: estudio y documentos. Sada / A Coruña: Edicións do Castro, page 415

we give you, for you to have, that house where you now dwell in Eires, with its garden and with the whole plot of that house, as it is enclosed with a wall at the time of this charter

damos a uos que tenades de nos essa cassa en que uos ora morades en Eyres, con seu saydo et con todo o formal dessa casa, asi como esta çerrada de muro ao tenpo da era desta carta.

1436, Manuel Lucas Alvarez & María José Justo Martín (eds.), Fontes documentais da Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Pergameos da serie Bens do Arquivo Histórico Universitario (Anos 1237-1537). Santiago: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 372

in the smokery, in his house, and in his corral and his garden, which is built in between the aforementioned house and the aforementioned smokery, in the outskirts of that town, in the street that goes from the plaza to the fountain

no fumeiro et casa del et corral et saydo del, que esta feyta entre a dita casa et o dito fumeyro enno arrabaldo da dita vila enna rua que vay da praça para a fonte

vegetable garden or orchard next to a house


saín

saíns (plural)
saíl (alternative)
seíl (alternative)
seín (alternative)

From Old French (compare French saindoux), from Vulgar Latin *saginum, from Latin sagīna (“fatness”). Cognate with Sicilian sajimi.


xugo

Attested since the 13th century (jugo). From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin jugum, iugum. Compare Portuguese jugo, Spanish yugo.

chain or strap that connects both parts of a flail


libio

libio m (plural libios, feminine libia, feminine plural libias)

libios (plural)
libia (feminine)
libias (feminine plural)


patrocinador

patrocinador m (plural patrocinadores, feminine patrocinadora, feminine plural patrocinadoras)

patrocinadores (plural)
patrocinadora (feminine)
patrocinadoras (feminine plural)

sponsor (person or organisation that pays part of the cost of an event or service)


tusido

Mentres fan o exame non quero sentir nin un tusido.

Whilst you are making the exam, I don't even want to hear a cough.

cough (sudden, noisy expulsion of air from the lungs)


treu

From Old Galician-Portuguese treu (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), probably from Old French tref (“tent, mast”). Doublet of tarabela.

Et cõ grã coyta que auía, metíose sobre mar, cõ grandes cõpañas, porlo yr buscar, et tãto singlarõ, a rremos et a treu, ata que chegarõ alý hu el iazía soterrado

1370, Ramón Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 731:

Sorrowful, he went into the sea with a large army, for searching for him, and they navigated for a long time, on oars and sails, until they arrived there where he was buried

hũu estrenque d'esparto novo et hũu estrenque vello d'esparto, et con seu treu que son tres monetas et hũu papafigo et con todos los outros seus aparellos

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

a new rope of esparto, and an old one also of esparto, with its set of sails, composed of three minor sails and a mainsail, with all the additional rigging


ruxido

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese rogido (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), borrowed from Latin rugītus. Doublet of ruído.
Cognate with Portuguese and Spanish rugido.

inh+

as portas do altar abrirõse et derõ tã grã rrogido que quantos y estauã coydauã que erã quebrantadas

1390, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Os Miragres de Santiago, Madrid: C.S.I.C., page 206:

the gates to the altar opened and gave such a large roar that everyone there thought that they were broken


grima

Probably from Gothic, from Proto-Germanic *grīmô (“mask”). Cognate with Portuguese grima and Spanish grima.

Ay Jesús! miña Joiña!
non falemos nesto mais,
que dá grima sò o pensalo,
Deus vos garde bo é san.
Santiago. Febreiro doce
Aÿ! que non sey que me dà,
que me esfraquezo de todo,
è non podo vafexàr.

1775, María Francisca Isla y Losada, Romance:

Oh, Jesus! My Jewel!
Let's not talk about this anymore
because it gives one the creeps just to think about it.
God take care of you, safe and sound.
Santiago, February twelve
Oh!, I don't know what happens to me
I'm totally weakening
and I can't breath

foi tal o terror que concibeu neste aflicto, que cando se vai lavar hastr'a auga lle dá grimo

he built such a terror because of that affliction, that when he's going to wash himself even the water gives him the creeps


estío

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese estio, from Latin [tempus] aestīvum (literally “summertime”). First attested in the 13th century.

inh

sal estonçes o estio et entra ho outono

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

then the summer leaves and the autumn enters


pezoña

pezoñas (plural)
peçonha (alternative)
pezoia (alternative)
pozoña (alternative)

From Old Galician-Portuguese peçonna, ponçonna, poçõya (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Vulgar Latin *potionea, from Latin pōtio, pōtione-. Compare Portuguese peçonha, Spanish ponzoña, cf. also French poison.

(folklore) skin sickness caused by venomous animals


veciño

gl-noun

veciño m (plural veciños, feminine veciña, feminine plural veciñas)

veciños (plural)
veciña (feminine)
veciñas (feminine plural)
vecín (alternative)
viciño (alternative)

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese vezinho, from Late Latin vēcīnus, from Latin vīcīnus. Compare Portuguese vizinho, Spanish vecino.

inh+

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

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

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

citizen (inhabitant or member of a place)


relixión

relixións (plural)
religiom (alternative)
religião (alternative)

Learned borrowing from Latin religiōnem.


ril

Attested since 1409 (rrijn). From an Old Galician-Portuguese *rẽil > *rĩĩl , from Vulgar Latin *rēnile, from Latin rēn.

(usually in the plural) kidney (as food)


rosa dos ventos

gl-noun

rosa dos ventos f (plural rosas dos ventos)

From rosa (“rose”) and vento (“wind”). Literally, “rose of the winds”.


rosas dos ventos

rosa dos ventos
rosa dos ventos#Galician


rúa

Ultimately from Latin rūga (“wrinkle”), probably through Old French rue, or influenced by it.


tempestade

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese tempestade (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin tempestās, tempestātem. Cognate with Portuguese tempestade and Spanish tempestad.

inh+

nen a tenpestade nen a geada nen a pedraço nen a esterilidade nen a outra perda algua que aynda que a y aia que ha sofran en sy et non leixen por ende de pagar a dita renda, saluo se lla tomase ou mandase tomar el Rey

1360, E. Cal Pardo, editor, De Viveiro en la Edad Media, Estudios Mindonienses, 7, page 143:

nor for tempest, nor for freeze, nor for hail, nor for sterility, nor for any other loss, that if it ever happen that they should endure it, and never to stop paying that rent, except if taken or ordered to be taken by the King


tellado

From Old Galician-Portuguese telhado (“roof”), from Vulgar Latin *teglātu, from Latin tēgulātum, from tēgula (“a roof-tile”). Compare Portuguese telhado, Spanish tejado, Catalan teulada.

inh

Declarou Gonçaluo de Seara que leuara do baño do Posyo seys tellas e as tirara do tellado et que Gonçaluo de Sárrea que leuara a pechadura do baño do Posío da porta de dentro

1448, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 142:

Gonzalo de Seara declared that he had taken away from the baths of Posío six tiles, which he removed from the roof; and that Gonzalo de Sarria took away the lock of the baths of Posío, from the inner door


teito

13th century. From Old Galician-Portuguese teito (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin tēctum, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teg- (“to cover with a roof”). Cognate with Portuguese teto and Spanish techo.

der

ceiling (the upper part of a cavity or room)

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 de Compostela: USC, page 60

Item, a house in Queen's Fountain Street, that are three houses [sic] under a roof

Jtem hũa cassa ẽna rrúa da Fonte da Rreýna que sson tres cassas so hũu teyto

roof (the cover at the top of a building)


tella

From Old Galician-Portuguese tella, from Vulgar Latin *tegla, from Latin tēgula. Cognate with Portuguese telha and Spanish teja.


pexego

pexegos (plural)
pésago (alternative)
pésego (alternative)
pesego (alternative)
pésigo (alternative)
péxago (alternative)
péxego (alternative)
poxego (alternative)
préxego (alternative)
préxigo (alternative)
príxigo (alternative)

Attested since the 13th century (prexego, prexigo); from Latin persicum (“peach”), ellipsis of persicum pōmum (“Persian fruit”). Cognate with Portuguese pêssego.

non daredes de prexegos, nen de figos

1366, M .Lucas Alvarez, M. & P. Lucas Domínguez, editors, San Pedro de Ramirás. Un monasterio femenino en la Edad Media, Santiago: Caixa Galicia, page 520:


pexegueiro

pexegueiros (plural)
pesagueiro (alternative)
pesegueiro (alternative)
pexigueiro (alternative)
prexegueiro (alternative)
prexigueiro (alternative)

Attested since the 14th century (presegeiro). From pexego + -eiro.


pobo

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese poboo (displacing collateral form poblo), from Latin populus. Compare Portuguese povo, Spanish pueblo.

inh+

pera proueyto do dito conçello e cabíidoo et de todo o poboo da dita çidade

1433, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 98:

for the profit of said council and chapter and of all the people of said city

É dicir, que no goberno que representaba a legalidade republicana non se recoñecía politicamente a Galicia, a pesar de que o pobo galego aprobara en plebiscito o seu Estatuto de Autonomía.

2002, Ramón Piñeiro, Da miña acordanza: memorias, Editorial Galaxia, →ISBN, page 74:

That is, the government that represented the republican legality did not politically recognize Galicia, even though the Galician people had approved, in a plebiscite, their Statute of Autonomy [devolution act]


piollo

piollos (plural)
piolho (alternative)
pollo (alternative)

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Late Latin peduclus < peduculus, variant of Latin pēdīculus, diminutive of pēdis (“louse”). Cognate with Portuguese piolho and Spanish piojo.

(in the plural) a certain sickness that causes tongue warts in cattle


ervella

ervellas (plural)
ervelha (alternative)
ervilha (alternative)
ervilla (alternative)
revella (alternative)

oyto fanegas de ligoyma entre fuas et eruellas

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

eight fanegas of legumes, both beans and peas

Pisum sativum
Pisum sativum#Translingual


froita

froitas (plural)
fruita (alternative)
fruta (alternative)

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese fruita (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Late Latin fructa, from Latin fructus. Cognate with Portuguese fruta and Spanish fruta.

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

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

to give each year a quarter of dry fruit [nuts], half of chestnuts and half of walnuts

da froita de Ledime [...] dian dela quarta parte salvo prepigos e cereijas

1292, M. Lucas Alvarez & P. P. Lucas Dominguez (eds.), San Pedro de Ramirás. Un monasterio femenino en la Edad Media. Colección diplomática. Santiago: Publicacións de Caixa Galicia, page 439

of the fruit of Ledime … they should give a fourth, except peaches and cherries


mazá

mazás (plural)
manzá (alternative)
mazán (alternative)
maçá (alternative)
maçã (alternative)

From Old Galician-Portuguese maçãa, from Vulgar Latin māla (“apples”) mattiana (“of Mattium”), though some theorize that mattiana was an Iberian pronunciation of the Gallo-Roman word matianium, a golden apple named after Gaius Matius, a horticulturist and friend of Caesar.

Ay espada moy fremosa, que nũca foy suzia nẽ ferrugeẽta, mais sempre foy fremosa et clara et cõueniuele d'ancho et de longo, mais forte et mais firme ca toda las outras, o mãgo tẽes d'almasi moy brãquo et feicto en gisa de cruz, cõ moy fremosa arrays dourada et cõ moy boa maçãa dourada de beril no magarõ.

1390, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Os Miragres de Santiago, Madrid: CSIC, page 136:

Oh, sword which is very beauty, which has never been dirty or rusty but was always beauty and clear and appropriate in its width and in its length; stronger and firmer than the rest; your hilt is of the whitest ivory, made in the form of the cross, with a very beauty golden handle, and an excellent golden knob of beryl in the end


pereira

vendemos et outorgamos a vos Aras Meendez et vossa moller Marina Mel et a toda a vossa voz as tres qual tas da casa que esta so a vossa casa en villa de Cassares con seu seydo commo vay ata a pereyra que estava en a cortina, et del-la pereyra III sucos ata a rogeyra

1290, M. Romaní Martínez (ed.), La colección diplomática de Santa María de Oseira (1025-1310). Santiago: Tórculo Edicións, page 1154


maceira

maceiras (plural)
maciñeira (alternative North)
mazaira (alternative East)

mazá + -eira, from Old Galician-Portuguese maçẽeyra, from Medieval Latin mazanaria. Compare Portuguese macieira.


néspera

nésperas (plural)
néspero (alternative)
nêspera (alternative)


nespereira

From Old Galician-Portuguese [Term?], from local Medieval Latin nesperaria, attested since the 10th century, from Vulgar Latin *nespirum, from mespilum, from Ancient Greek μέσπιλον (méspilon).

either of two trees which produce a fruit known as the néspera:


albaricoqueiro

gl-noun

albaricoqueiro m (plural albaricoqueiros)


cereixa

cereixas (plural)
cireixa (alternative)
zreixa (alternative)
cereija (alternative)
cereja (alternative)
zreija (alternative)

From Old Galician-Portuguese cereyja, cereija (compare Portuguese cereja), from Vulgar Latin ceresia, from the neuter plural of Late Latin ceresium, from Latin cerasium, from Ancient Greek κεράσιον (kerásion, “cherry”), from κερασός (kerasós, “bird cherry”), ultimately possibly of Anatolian origin.
Cognate with Portuguese cereja and Spanish cereza.


cerdeira

/θeɾˈðejɾa̝/

From Old Galician-Portuguese cerdeyra, cerdarias, from older cerseyra, from Medieval Latin ceresaria, from ceresia.


cirola

Probably a late borrowing from Leonese; from Late Latin cēreŏla, an abbreviation of pruna cēreola ("wax-colored plums"), from the feminine of Latin cereolus; see cera.


cirolas

From Arabic سَرَاوِيل (sarāwīl, “pants”). Cognate with Portuguese ceroulas and Spanish zaragüelles.

(historical) long johns or similar undergarment


moreira

A derivative, with the suffix -eira, from Latin mōrum (“mulberry”), from Ancient Greek μόρον (móron).


silveira

place with brambles; a hedge topped with brambles


arandeira

Vaccinium myrtillus
Vaccinium myrtillus#Translingual

blueberry bush; bilberry bush (Vaccinium myrtillus)


amorodo

amorodos (plural)
amorodio (alternative)
morodio (alternative)
morodo (alternative)

Uncertain. Given the related forms morango, morogo, morote and the cognates, Portuguese morango and Asturian meruéndano, then probably from a substrate language *morotanu.

strawberry (the fruit), either wild or grown


amorodeira

amorodeiras (plural)
morodeira (alternative)
moroteira (alternative)


durián

From English durian, from Malay durian, from Proto-Malayic *duri-an, from (Western) Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *duʀi-an.


cabaza

From Old Galician-Portuguese cabaaça, from an earlier *calabaça, probably from Paleo-Hispanic *calapaccia. Cognate with Portuguese cabaça, Spanish calabaza and Catalan carabassa.

et por las casas et outras cousas daredes cada ano a min et ao abade do dito moesteiro por razon de forros, huun par de bõõs capoos et huna cabaaça de vino por dia de san Martino.

1380, M. Lucas Álvarez, P. Lucas Domínguez, editors, El monasterio de San Clodio do Ribeiro en la Edad Media: estudio y documentos, Sada / A Coruña: Edicións do Castro, page 512:

and you'll give yearly to me and to the abbot of said monastery, for the rent of the houses and the other things, a pair of good capons and a gourd of wine, the day of Saint Martin

cured gourd used traditionally in Galicia as a container for liquids

Son dous Mozos solteiros polas trazas,
son dous Asnos q[u]e andan sempre juntos,
foron á Santiago á buscar puntos
é viñeron cargados de cabazas

c. 1810, Antonio Arias Teixeiro, Sonetos con estrambote:

They are two bachelors, judging by the signs
two asses who always go together
they went to [the university of] Santiago to make points
and came back loaded with pumpkins [bad grades]


cabaciña

bug, true bug (an insect of the order Hemiptera)


panadeiro

gl-noun

panadeiro m (plural panadeiros, feminine panadeira, feminine plural panadeiras)

panadeiros (plural)
panadeira (feminine)
panadeiras (feminine plural)

From Old Galician-Portuguese pãadeiro, from Vulgar Latin pānātārius, from Latin pānis (“bread”).


pemento

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese pimento, from Latin pigmentum (“pigment, colour”). Doublet of pigmento. Cognate with Portuguese pimento.

inh+

Pementos de Padrón: uns pican e outros non.

Peppers from Padrón: some are hot, others are not.

Os ingredientes do "polbo á feira" son: polvo, sal, aceite e pemento.

The ingredients of "polbo á feira" are: octopus, salt, olive oil and paprika.


pementa

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese pimenta, from Latin pigmenta, form of pigmentum (“pigment”), from pingō (“to paint”), Proto-Indo-European *peyḱ- (“spot, color”).


millo

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese milho, from Latin milium (“millet”). In the 17th-19th century the name passed to be applied to a new crop, the American maize, whilst millet became known as millo miúdo (literally “little maize”). Compare Portuguese milho.


maínzo

From Latin *manicius, from Latin manus (“hand”).


maínzo

Blend of paínzo (“foxtail millet”) + maíz (“maize”).


meniño

gl-noun

meniño m (plural meniños, feminine meniña, feminine plural meniñas)

meniños (plural)
meniña (feminine)
meniñas (feminine plural)
miniño (alternative)
meninho (alternative)
mininho (alternative)

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese meninho (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria) of uncertain origin. Cognate with Portuguese menino.

inh+

As nosas mulleres
Subamos de prezo
Que, ê muito travallo
È dor mui doente
Botar á este mundo
Hum miniño inteiro.
Com’elas s’estrican,
Cómo se escrequenan
Como dan gemidos
Choros è lamentos,
Como à côr do rostro
Toda van perdendo
È agre bocado
Qu’a calquer pon medo.

1842, Juan Manuel Pintos, Meu querido pai:

Our women's
price we should rise
because it is hard work
and aching pain
to throw to this world
a whole baby.
How they stretch,
how they crouch,
How they wail,
cry and lament,
How the face colour
they lose entirely.
It's a sour mouthful
that makes anyone scared.

E levábanlle tamén os meniños para que os tocase. Pero os discípulos rifábanlles. Entón Xesús chamounos e dixo: ‑Deixade que os nenos se acheguen a min: non llelo privedes, porque dos que son coma eles é o Reino de Deus.

People were bringing even infants to him that he might touch them; and when the disciples saw it, they sternly ordered them not to do it. But Jesus called for them and said, “Let the little children come to me, and do not stop them; for it is to such as these that the kingdom of God belongs.

s


meniña

gl-noun

meniña f (plural meniñas, masculine meniño, masculine plural meniños)

meniñas (plural)
meniño (masculine)
meniños (masculine plural)
miniña (alternative)

From Old Galician-Portuguese menỹo (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria) of uncertain origin. Cognate with Portuguese menina.

Tanto teño d’ir é vir
meniña ó teu lugar,
tanto teño d’ir é vir,
que d’unha te hey de levar.

1814, Antonio Benito Fandiño, (Please provide the book title or journal name):

So many times I must go and come,
girl, to your place,
so many time I must go and come,
that one time I'll carry you away.


adhesivo

adhesivos (plural)
adesivo (alternative)


óbito

[ˈɔ.β̞i.t̪ʊ]


morote

morotes (plural)
amarote (alternative)
amorote (alternative)

Uncertain. Given the related forms morango, morodo, morogo and the cognates, Portuguese morango and Asturian meruéndano, then probably from a substrate language *morotanu.


landra

landras (plural)
alandua (alternative)
alánduga (alternative)
landre (alternative)

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin glāndula (“little acorn; tonsil”), or from Vulgar Latin glandinem, from Latin glāns (“acorn”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷelh₂- (“acorn”). Doublet of glande or glándula. Compare also Spanish landre.

queimaras con fero feruente rredondo as llandooas que tem o Cauallo ontre o Collo et a cabeça so as qeixadas

1409, José Luis Pensado Tomé, editor, Tratado de Albeitaria, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 109:

you'll burn with a round red hot iron the [swollen] nodes that the horse has in between the neck and the jaw


belota

belotas (plural)
abelota (alternative)
aberrota (alternative)

From Andalusian Arabic [Term?], from Arabic بَلُّوطَة (ballūṭa), from Aramaic בְּלוּטָא / ܒܠܘܛܐ (bəllūṭā, ballūṭā, “oak; acorn”). Compare Portuguese bolota and Spanish bellota.

der

Aramaic בְּלוּטָא


mañá

mañás (plural)
manhã (alternative)
mañán (alternative)
miñán (alternative)

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese mannãa, from Vulgar Latin *māneāna, from Latin māne, from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂-. Cognate with Portuguese manhã and Spanish mañana.


leituga

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin lactūca.

Hypochaeris radicata
Wikispecies:Hypochaeris radicata

Lactuca serriola
Wikispecies:Lactuca serriola


irmán

gl-noun

irmán m (plural irmáns, feminine irmá, feminine plural irmás)

irmáns (plural)
irmá (feminine)
irmás (feminine plural)
ermao (alternative)
irmao (alternative)
irmam (alternative)
irmão (alternative)

From Old Galician-Portuguese irmão and its variants, from Vulgar Latin germānus (“brother”), from Latin germānus (“of siblings”). Cognate to Portuguese irmão and Spanish hermano.


irmán

irmán f (plural irmáns, masculine irmao, masculine plural irmaos)

irmáns (plural)
irmao (masculine)
irmaos (masculine plural)


irmá

From Old Galician-Portuguese irmãa, yrmãa, from Latin germāna. Cognate to Portuguese irmã and Spanish hermana.


cordeiro

cordeiros (plural)
cordeeiro (alternative)
cordieiro (alternative)

From an older *cordeleiro ("string maker"), from cordel (“string”) + -eiro, influenced by the open stressed vowel in corda (“string”).


cordeiro

From Old Galician-Portuguese cordeyro (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria) from Vulgar Latin *cordārium, from the Latin expression agnus cordus ("late-born lamb"), from Latin chordus (“late-born”).


persoa

From Old Galician-Portuguese persõa, pessõa, from Latin persōna (“mask used by actor; role, part, character”), perhaps a loanword from Etruscan *𐌘𐌄𐌓𐌔𐌖 (*φersu, “mask”), from Ancient Greek πρόσωπον (prósōpon).


hóspede

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese ospede (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin hospitem, accusative singular of hospes.

inh+

O hóspede e o peixe, ós tres días feden

Guest and fish, they stink after three days

Et que esta Roupa que seja ena enfermaria para os frayres doentes ou para os frayres que foren ospedes que os mays mester ouueren

1395, A. López Ferreiro, editor, Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática, Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 157:

And that this clothes that are in the infirmary must be for the sick friars or for the friars that were guests that have the most need for them


hospedaxe

hospedaxes (plural)
hospedagem (alternative)


diñeiro

From Old Galician-Portuguese dỹeiro, from Vulgar Latin *dīnārius, an alteration of Latin dēnārius. Cognate with Portuguese dinheiro and Spanish dinero.

Cando o diñeiro fala, todos calan.

When money speaks, everyone is silent -listens-.

(historical) a coin used during the Middle Ages in Galicia


abelá

From Old Galician-Portuguese avelãa, from Latin abellana (“filbert, hazelnut”), from nux abellana ("nut from Avella"), from Abella (Avella, a city in the Campania region of Italy). Cognate with Portuguese avelã and Spanish avellana.

abelá:

duas cruses vnna blanca et vnna auelaa

1321, E. Cal Pardo, editor, Colección diplomática medieval do arquivo da catedral de Mondoñedo, Santiago: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 119:

(countable and uncountable) hazel (a greenish-brown colour, the colour of a ripe hazelnut)


abeleira

abeleiras (plural)
abelaira (alternative Eastern Galician)
abraira (alternative Eastern Galician)
aveleira (alternative)

From Old Galician-Portuguese avelãeira. Compare abelá.


agulla

From Old Galician-Portuguese agulla (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Late Latin acūcula, diminutive of Latin acus (“needle”).

Belone belone
Belone belone#Translingual


anxo

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese angeo, from Late Latin angelus, from Ancient Greek ἄγγελος (ángelos).


camiño

13th century. Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese camĩo, from Late Latin cammīnus; probably from Gaulish, although the earliest documentation of the word is from the 7th century, in Hispania. From Proto-Celtic *kanxsman-, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)keng- (“to limp”). Cognate with Welsh camm, Irish céim, Celtiberian [Term?] (kamanom). Compare Portuguese caminho.

der

De camiño a casa pararei no forno.


fariña

fariñas (plural)
faría (alternative)
farinha (alternative)

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese farinna, farinha, from Latin farīna (“flour, meal”). Cognate with Portuguese farinha, Fala and Asturian fariña, Spanish harina.

inh+

Uns bolos tan grandes como un pan de mesto, que eran de fariña de trigo escolleito.

Some cakes as big as a bread of mesto, which were made of selected wheat flour.


filla

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese filha, from Latin fīlia. Compare Portuguese filha.

É a súa filla.


frecha

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese frecha, borrowed from Old French fleche, from Vulgar Latin *fleccia, borrowed from Frankish *fliukkijā, from Proto-Indo-European *plewk-, from *plew-.


frecha

Either from frecha (“arrow”), or ultimately a derivation of Latin frangō (“I break”).


meixela

From Latin maxilla. Cognate with Spanish mejilla.


algodóns

[ɑɫ.ɣ̞ʊˈð̞ɔŋs̺]

[ɑɫ.ɣ̞ʊˈð̞ɔŋs̺]

[ɑɫ.ħʊˈð̞ɔŋs̺]


excomuñón

excomuñóns (plural)
excomunión (alternative)


feixón

feixóns (plural)
freixón (alternative)
fréxel (alternative)
fréxole (alternative)

From Old Galician-Portuguese feijoo, from Latin phaseolus, probably from Ancient Greek φάσηλος (phásēlos). Compare Ladino fijon, Portuguese feijão and Spanish frejol.


garavanzo

garavanzos (plural)
gravanzo (alternative dialectal)
garavanço (alternative)
gravanço (alternative)
ervanço (alternative)

[ɡɑ.ɾaˈβ̞an̪.θʊ]

[ɡɑ.ɾaˈβ̞an̪.θʊ]

[ħɑ.ɾaˈβ̞an̪.θʊ]

From Old Galician-Portuguese garvanço, from ervanço, from an Indo-European substrate language (Proto-Germanic *arwīts (“pea”), Latin ervum (“vetch”)) and ultimately possibly a Mediterranean borrowing cognate with Ancient Greek ἐρέβινθος (erébinthos).
Cognate with dialectal Portuguese ervanço, Spanish garbanzo.


gralla

From Old Galician-Portuguese (compare Portuguese gralha), from Vulgar Latin *gracla (compare Italian gracchia), syncopated form of Late Latin grācula (“female jackdaw”) (compare French grolle), feminine form of Latin grāculus (compare Spanish grajo), from Proto-Indo-European *greh₂-k- (“croak”).

Coloeus monedula
Coloeus monedula#Translingual

Corvus frugilegus
Corvus frugilegus#Translingual


cinsa

cinsas (plural)
cinza (alternative)
ciza (alternative)

From Old Galician-Portuguese cĩisa, from Vulgar Latin root *cinisia, from Latin cinis.

Desí collerõ a çĩjnsa del, et guardárõna muy bem et moyto honrradament en hũa caseta d'ouro muy rrica et moy noble que acharã ẽno tesouro del rrey Príamo.

1370, R. Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 679:

Then they took their ashes and put them very well and very honourably in a very rich and noble little house of gold that they had found in king Priam's treasury


borralla

borrallas (plural)
borralha (alternative)


coitelo

coitelos (plural)
cuitelo (alternative)
cutelo (alternative)
cutielo (alternative)
cutilo (alternative)

From Old Galician-Portuguese cuitelo, coitelo, from Latin cultellus. Cognate with Portuguese cutelo and Spanish cuchillo.

En cas do ferreiro coitelo de pau

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

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

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


carabuña

carabuñas (plural)
carabunha (alternative)
carambuña (alternative)
caramuña (alternative)
crabuña (alternative)

Unknown. Attested since circa 1539; perhaps from Latin *clavucula, from clavus.

stone or pit of peaches, nectarines, cherries and similar fruits


togolés

gl-noun

togolés m (plural togoleses, feminine togolesa, feminine plural togolesas)

togoleses (plural)
togolesa (feminine)
togolesas (feminine plural)


tanzano

tanzano m (plural tanzanos, feminine tanzana, feminine plural tanzanas)

tanzanos (plural)
tanzana (feminine)
tanzanas (feminine plural)


tailandés

tailandés m (plural tailandeses, feminine tailandesa, feminine plural tailandesas)

tailandeses (plural)
tailandesa (feminine)
tailandesas (feminine plural)
tailandês (alternative)


sudanés

sudanés m (plural sudaneses, feminine sudanesa, feminine plural sudanesas)

sudaneses (plural)
sudanesa (feminine)
sudanesas (feminine plural)
sudanês (alternative)


waterpolista

waterpolista m or f by sense (plural waterpolistas)


ruandés

ruandés m (plural ruandeses, feminine ruandesa, feminine plural ruandesas)

ruandeses (plural)
ruandesa (feminine)
ruandesas (feminine plural)


poetisa

female poet, poetess (female equivalent of poeta)


nepalés

nepalés m (plural nepaleses, feminine nepalesa, feminine plural nepalesas)

nepaleses (plural)
nepalesa (feminine)
nepalesas (feminine plural)
nepalês (alternative)


raíña

raíñas (plural)
reíña (alternative)
rainha (alternative)

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese reinha, rainha, from Latin rēgīna. Compare Portuguese rainha.


raíña

From raia (“line”), ultimately from Latin radius (“ray of light; rod”).


namibio

gl-noun

namibio m (plural namibios, feminine namibia, feminine plural namibias)

namibios (plural)
namibia (feminine)
namibias (feminine plural)


mauriciano

mauriciano m (plural mauricianos, feminine mauriciana, feminine plural mauricianas)

mauricianos (plural)
mauriciana (feminine)
mauricianas (feminine plural)


marroquí

marroquí m or f by sense (plural marroquís)


kuwaití

kuwaití m or f by sense (plural kuwaitís)


gabonés

gabonés m (plural gaboneses, feminine gabonesa, feminine plural gabonesas)

gaboneses (plural)
gabonesa (feminine)
gabonesas (feminine plural)


chipriota

chipriota m or f by sense (plural chipriotas)


chadiano

chadiano m (plural chadianos, feminine chadiana, feminine plural chadianas)

chadianos (plural)
chadiana (feminine)
chadianas (feminine plural)


camerunés

camerunés m (plural cameruneses, feminine camerunesa, feminine plural camerunesas)

cameruneses (plural)
camerunesa (feminine)
camerunesas (feminine plural)


caboverdiano

caboverdiano m (plural caboverdianos, feminine caboverdiana, feminine plural caboverdianas)

caboverdianos (plural)
caboverdiana (feminine)
caboverdianas (feminine plural)


beninés

beninés m (plural benineses, feminine beninesa, feminine plural beninesas)

benineses (plural)
beninesa (feminine)
beninesas (feminine plural)


arqueólogo

arqueólogo m (plural arqueólogos, feminine arqueóloga, feminine plural arqueólogas)

arqueólogos (plural)
arqueóloga (feminine)
arqueólogas (feminine plural)


citación

citacións (plural)
citaçom (alternative)
citação (alternative)


rosada

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *rōsāta, derived from Latin rōs.


xeada

xeadas (plural)
xiada (alternative)
xelada (alternative)
geada (alternative)

From Old Galician-Portuguese geada (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Early Medieval Latin gelāta, derived from Latin gelāre (“freeze”). Compare Portuguese geada and Spanish helada.

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

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

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

aló no mes de xaneiro da cama me erguín lixeiro pra ir á feira de Ourense; Era un día de invernada de brétoma marrullento; de aquelas mañás, que o vento corta o carís coa xiada;

1859, R. Barros Sibelo, Un dia de desfertuna:

back in January, I swiftly got up from bed to go to the fair of Ourense. It was a wintry day, unruly, misty; one of those mornings when the wind cuts the face with the frost.


xabre

Probably from Old French sable, from Late Latin sablum, a variant form of Latin sabulō, sabulōnem (“sand”).


xabre

From Old French jable, from Late Latin gabulum, from Proto-Celtic *gablo- (“fork”).

slot in which the edges of the barrel lids are fitted


cogombro

Attested since circa 1300. From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin cucumis, cucumerem (“cucumber”).

Toma hũu cogonbro et encheo de sangue, et vay aa orta du andã os vijte jnfantes, et da cõ el ẽnos peytos a Gonçaluo Gonçaluez, a aquel que vees que tẽ o açor na mão

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 179:


orxo

From Old Galician-Portuguese orjo (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin hordeum (“barley”).

de quanto centeo e auea e orjo labraren en ese Regengo ha de auer o arcobispo ou seu mayordomo a meadad despois que os labradores tomaren o seu dereito

1331, Antonio López Ferreiro, editor, Fueros municipales de Santiago y de su tierra, Madrid: Ediciones Castilla, page 542:

of all the rye, oat and barley that they would grow in this crown's possession, the archbishop or his steward must have half of it, after the laborers have taken their parts


túmulo

From Latin tumulus (“mound; barrow”), from tumeō (“I swell”), from Proto-Indo-European *tūm- (“to swell, to increase”).


popó

Attested since circa 1750. Onomatopoeic. Compare English poo.


mendo

Probably from French limande (“common dab”), after interpreting the first consonant as the French definite article.

Limanda limanda
Wikispecies:Limanda limanda

Microstomus kitt
Wikispecies:Microstomus kitt

Glyptocephalus cynoglossus
Wikispecies:Glyptocephalus cynoglossus

witch, flounder, Torbay sole (Glyptocephalus cynoglossus)


voitre

voitres (plural)
butre (alternative)
voutre (alternative)
vrute (alternative)
vutre (alternative)

From Old Galician-Portuguese voitre and its variants, from Latin vultur, vulturem. Cognate with Portuguese abutre and Spanish buitre.


visado

visa; a permit to enter and leave a country


vagalume

From vagar (“to wander”) + lume (“light”).


lucecú

Attested since circa 1750. From luz + en + cu, "light-in-butt". Cognate with Portuguese luz-em-cu, luze-cu.


salamántiga

salamántigas (plural)
salamántega (alternative)

Perhaps a blend of salamandra + píntega.


unlla

From Old Galician-Portuguese unlla (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin ungula. Cognate with Portuguese unha and Spanish uña.


ucraíno

gl-noun

ucraíno m (plural ucraínos, feminine ucraína, feminine plural ucraínas)

ucraínos (plural)
ucraína (feminine)
ucraínas (feminine plural)
ucraino (alternative)


abridores

/ɐβɾiˈðoɾɪs/


administradora

administradora f (plural administradoras)


peza

Attested in local medieval documents as peza (969); from Old Galician-Portuguese peça, from Vulgar Latin *pettia, probably from Gaulish, from Proto-Celtic *kʷezdis. Compare French pièce, Portuguese peça, Spanish pieza, Italian and Sicilian pezza, Welsh peth, Irish cuid.

piece, fragment, part, component of a larger or composite object

una leyra con una peça de monte

1278, Emilio Duro Peña, editor, El Monasterio de San Esteban de Ribas de Sil, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F., page 290:

a farmland patch with a piece of uncultivated land

que desta dita çibdade avían partido Pero Dias de Cadorna e Martín Sánches, abade da Triindade da dita çibdade, con çerta gente de cavalo e de pe, pera Milmanda, sobre rasón de çerto insulto que ena dita villa de Millmanda avían feyto Martín de Castro, con peça de gente do señorío de Purtogal

1441, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 272:

that from this city [Ourense] had departed Pedro Diaz de Cadorna and Martín Sánchez, abbot of the Trinity of said city, with some mounted and unmounted people, to Milmanda, because of a certain insult that in said town of Milmanda had done Martín de Castro with a group of people of the realm of Portugal

each one of the fixed periods of time allotted for the use of a mill


advento

Learned borrowing from Latin adventus (“approach”). The inherited form avento has fallen out of use.

lbor

Et que os clerigos da dita iglesia que me digan cada anno huna minsa cantada pollo mes de avento

1370, Miguel Romaní Martínez (ed.), La colección diplomática de Santa María de Oseira (1025-1310). Santiago: Tórculo Edicións, II, page 318

And the clerics of the aforementioned church shall say a chanted mass, each year, sometime during the month of Advent

Pola vintena do advento, chuvia, neve e vento.

By the twenties of Advent, rain, snow and wind.


capón

From Old Galician-Portuguese capon (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from a Vulgar Latin root *cappō, *cappōnem, from Latin cāpō. Compare Portuguese capão and Spanish capón.

It. mando que den .CCC. mrs. porllas almas daquelles a que tomey capon ou gallina ou carne que non pagase.

1348, Antonio López Ferreiro, editor, Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática, Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 72:

Item, I order that they shall give 300 maravedis for the souls of them from whom I took capon or hen or meat that I didn't pay


ovni

Acronym of obxecto voador non identificado.


bancal

Attested since the 14th century. From banco (“bench”) + -al.

1326, López Ferreiro, Antonio (ed.): Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática. Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 295

I bequeath this my bed, as it is, with its clothes and with its curtains and ceiling and with its quilts and with the other rugs that I have usually in the ground and with a green cloth and a tablecloth, no bancals

mando esta mia cama assy como iaz con sous panos et con suas cortinas et ceo et con sous alfamares et con los outros destalos que eu trago comunalmente pela terra et con vn pano uerde et un tapete sen bançaes


mexillón

mexillóns (plural)
mexilhom (alternative)
mexilhão (alternative)
mexilón (alternative)
mixillón (alternative)
mixilón (alternative)

Spanish: mejillón

Attested since 1328. From Iberian Vulgar Latin *musceliō (“mussel”), from Latin muscellus, from Latin musculus (“muscle, mussel”). Cognate of Portuguese mexilhão.

a miña casa do campo que he ena rua que chaman de Don Felipe e o canto da rua donde venden os mixilloes

1328, Cesar Vaamonde Lores, editor, Documentos Históricos, A Coruña: RAG, vol III, page 55, note 1:

my house in the concourse in the street which they call of Don Felipe, by the corner of the street where they sell the mussels


discriminação

reintegrationist spelling of discriminación


discriminación

gl-noun

discriminación f (plural discriminacións)

discriminacións (plural)
discriminaçom (alternative)
discriminação (alternative)

Learned borrowing from Latin discrīminātiōnem.


hostilidade

Learned borrowing from Latin hostilitātem.

hostility (a hostile act, usually in plural)


coldre

From Old Galician-Portuguese coldre, from Latin gōrȳtos (“quiver”).


orfo

gl-noun

orfo m (plural orfos, feminine orfa, feminine plural orfas)

orfos (plural)
orfa (feminine)
orfas (feminine plural)

Attested since the 13th century (orfoo). From Late Latin orphanus (“orphan”), from Ancient Greek ὀρφανός (orphanós). Cognate with Portuguese órfão, Spanish huérfano. For the phonetic development of the ending, compare orgo (from Latin organum) and ravo (from Latin raphanus).

fazemos e ordenamos á loor de Deus e da Uirgen Santa María, sa madre, conuén a saber: hua albergaría na vila de Monte Rey e que seia de Santi Espíritos, en que se collam os pobres e se cryen os orfos

1320, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 75:

we build and order, for the Lord's and Saint Mary's, his mother, praise, this which follows: a hospital in the town of Monterrei, dedicated to the Holy Ghost, where the poor can be gathered and the orphans brought up


bacteriologia

reintegrationist spelling of bacterioloxía


bibliologia

reintegrationist spelling of biblioloxía


budista

budista m or f by sense (plural budistas)


ictiólogo

ictiólogo m (plural ictiólogos, feminine ictióloga, feminine plural ictiólogas)

ictiólogos (plural)
ictióloga (feminine)
ictiólogas (feminine plural)


ascensión

Learned borrowing from Latin ascēnsiōnem.


lingüista

gl-noun

lingüista m or f by sense (plural lingüistas)


cota

quota (proportional part or share; share or proportion assigned to each in a division)


cota

Perhaps from Old French cotte, from Medieval Latin cotta (“undercoat, tunic”), from a Proto-Germanic *kuttô.

der

mays huna cota de fero et hun bacynete

1381, M. J. Portela Silva, editor, Documentos da catedral de Lugo. Século XIV. Doc. 846:

Et a morte deste rrey don Sancho, en vespera de Nadal, foy solto Sisnando que estaua preso, et veẽo a Santiago vestido de cota, et loriga et de armas

1467, J. A. Souto Cabo, editor, Crónica de Santa María de Iria, Santiago: Ediciós do Castro, page 114:

At the dead of this kind don Sancho, on Christmas eve, Don Sisnando, who was imprisoned, was released, and he came to Santiago dressed with mail and breastplate and weapons


cortador

gl-noun

cortador m (plural cortadores, feminine cortadora, feminine plural cortadoras)

cortadores (plural)
cortadora (feminine)
cortadoras (feminine plural)

Attested since 1370. From cortar (“to cut”) + -dor.


bálsamo

From Old Galician-Portuguese balsamo (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin balsamum, from Ancient Greek βάλσαμον (bálsamon).

1350, Kelvin M. Parker (ed.), Historia Troyana. Santiago: Instituto "Padre Sarmiento", page 150

You must know that in the world there is no incense, flower, balsam, nor another thing that has such a good smell as this pelt

Sabede que ẽno mũdo nõ ha jnçenso nẽ frol nẽ balsamo nẽ outra cousa que tã bõo olor aja cõmo esta pẽna.


sazón

sazóns (plural)
sazom (alternative)
sazão (alternative)

From Old Galician-Portuguese sazon (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), inherited from Latin satiōnem (“a sowing, planting”), from serere (“to sow”). Cognate with Portuguese sazão and Spanish sazón.

heat (a condition where a mammal is aroused sexually or where it is especially fertile and therefore eager to mate)


armiño

Already attested in local Latin documents in the 12th century; in Galician since the 13th century. Either from Proto-Germanic *harmô (cf. Old High German harmo), or from Latin mūs armenius ("Armenian mouse").


recepcionista

recepcionista m or f by sense (plural recepcionistas)


aquela

aquela f (plural aquelas, masculine aquel, masculine plural aqueles)

aquelas (plural)
aquel (masculine)
aqueles (masculine plural)

From Old Galician-Portuguese aquela, from Vulgar Latin *eccum illa, feminine singular of *eccum ille, from Latin eccum + ille.

thingy (used to refer to something vaguely or when one cannot recall its name)


existencialismo

existencialismo m (plural existencialismos)


gastroscopio

gastroscopios (plural)
gastroscópio (alternative)


planificación

planificacións (plural)
planificaçom (alternative)
planificação (alternative)


chilena

female equivalent of chileno (“Chilean”)


orientación sexual

orientación sexual f (plural orientacións sexuais)


milisegundo

millisecond (one one-thousandth of a second)


pansexualidade

pansexualidade f (plural pansexualidades)


biombo

From Portuguese biombo, from Japanese 屏風(びょうぶ) (byōbu, “folding screen”).


canário

canários (plural)
canária (feminine)
canárias (feminine plural)


precuela

From pre- + secuela, from English prequel.


uruguaio

uruguaio m (plural uruguaios, feminine uruguaia, feminine plural uruguaias)

uruguaios (plural)
uruguaia (feminine)
uruguaias (feminine plural)


eixo

Attested since the 14th century. From Latin axis (“axletree”) (with change of declension), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱs- (“axis”). Cognate with Portuguese eixo and Spanish eje.

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

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

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


paa

From Old Galician-Portuguese paa, from Latin pāla (“shovel”), from Proto-Indo-European *pak-slo-, from root *pag-.


clítoris

From Ancient Greek κλειτορίς (kleitorís).


trobador

trobador m (plural trobadores, feminine trobadora, feminine plural trobadoras)

trobadores (plural)
trobadora (feminine)
trobadoras (feminine plural)

From Old Galician-Portuguese trobador, from Old Occitan trobar. Cognate with Portuguese trovador.


picote

From Old Galician-Portuguese, perhaps from picar (“to itch”).

Iten, mando mays á dita Contança Gonçales, miña muller, a quarta parte da adega dos Vrancos, por quanto eu e ela conpramos a metade da dita adega a Meen Suares Galinato, e mándolle mays a cuba en que teño o viño branco e mays outras duas cubas que son dentro ena dita adega aa maao esquerda, vasyas, que teñen cada una doze moyos de lagar, e mays lle mando una cama de roupa con quatro cabeçaás e un colchón e un almadraque e con suas sabaas e media duzia d'almofadas e con hua manta de picote, e se ouver em casa un par de colchas, que aja ela una delas.

1484, X. Ferro Couselo (ed.), A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI. 2 vols. Vigo: Galaxia, page 127

Item, I devise said Constanza González, my wife, a fourth of the wine cellar of Os Brancos, since we both bought a half of it from Men Suarez Galiñato; and I also bequeath a cask in which I have the white wine, and also two other casks that are inside that wine cellar, on the left, empty, each one having twelve modii; and also bequeath to her a clothed bed with four pillows and a mattress and a mat, and with its sheets and half a dozen cushions and a blanket of picote, and if there is in the house a pair of quilts, she should have one of them

a cloth made of tow or linen in the warp and wool in the weave


picota

et qual quer persona que fose achado que leuase a dita rodriga das viñas alleas, se fose moller, que pagase de pena por cada vez dez mrs e de mays que lle fesesen tomar a rodriga á viña et á poer ena viña, segundo que a tirara, et que a posesen por hum dia ena picota

1435, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 114:

(dressing) cloak with a hood traditionally worn by women in the winter


disquete

(dated) diskette (small, flexible, magnetic disk for storage and retrieval of data)


mercadotecnia

marketing (the promotion, distribution and selling of a product or service)


bochecha

Of uncertain and disputed origin. Perhaps from some derivation of Latin bucca (e.g. buccella). Compare Portuguese bochecha (“cheek”)


trapecio

From Late Latin trapezium, from Ancient Greek τραπέζιον (trapézion).


prelado

From Old Galician-Portuguese prelado (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), borrowed from Latin praelatus, form past participle of praeferō (“I prefer”). Compare Portuguese and Spanish prelado.


vidente

vidente m or f by sense (plural videntes)

From Latin videntem, accusative singular of vidēns (“seeing”), present active participle of videō (“I see”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to know; to see”).


sobrevivência

reintegrationist spelling of sobrevivencia, supervivencia


naturalidade

Learned borrowing from Latin nātūrālitātem.

lbor

naturalness (state or quality of being natural)


cataclismo

Learned borrowing from Latin cataclysmus, from Ancient Greek κατακλυσμός (kataklusmós, “deluge, flood, inundation”), from κατά (katá, “down”) + κλύζω (klúzō, “to wash off, to wash away”) (from Proto-Indo-European *ḱlew- (“clean”)).


cabestro

cabestros (plural)
cabresto (alternative)

Attested since the 13th century. From Latin capistrum (“halter”). Cognate with Portuguese cabresto.


centroamericano

gl-noun

centroamericano m (plural centroamericanos, feminine centroamericana, feminine plural centroamericanas)

centroamericanos (plural)
centroamericana (feminine)
centroamericanas (feminine plural)

Central American
Central American#English

Central American (native or inhabitant of Central America)


calidade

Compare Spanish calidad and French qualité


xemelgo

xemelgo m (plural xemelgos, feminine xemelga, feminine plural xemelgas)

xemelgos (plural)
xemelga (feminine)
xemelgas (feminine plural)
ximelgo (alternative)
gemelgo (alternative)

[ʃeˈmɛɫ.ɣ̞ʊ]

[ʃeˈmɛɫ.ɣ̞ʊ]

From Vulgar Latin *gemellicum, from Latin gemellus, from geminus. Compare Spanish mielgo.


centroamericana

centroamericana f (plural centroamericanas)


raque

From New Latin rachis, from Ancient Greek ῥάχις (rhákhis, “spine, ridge”).


hiporraque

From hipo- (Ancient Greek ὑπο- (hupo-), combining form of ὑπό (hupó, “under”)) + raque (“rachis”).

(ornithology) hyporachis (of a feather), afterfeather


cálamo

Learned borrowing from Latin calamus (“reed, cane”).

lbor

(ornithology) calamus, quill (of a feather)


intromisión

intromisións (plural)
intromissom (alternative)
intromissão (alternative)


programador

gl-noun

programador m (plural programadores, feminine programadora, feminine plural programadoras)

programadores (plural)
programadora (feminine)
programadoras (feminine plural)

(computing) programmer (one who writes computer programs)


vestimenta

From Latin vestīmenta, plural of vestīmentum.


baloncestista

baloncestista m or f by sense (plural baloncestistas)


malabarista

malabarista m or f by sense (plural malabaristas)


virilidade

From Latin virīlitās, virīlitātis from vir (“man”).


vesícula seminal

vesícula seminal f (plural vesículas seminais)


comediante

comediante m or f by sense (plural comediantes)


deportación

deportacións (plural)
deportaçom (alternative)
deportação (alternative)


confederación

confederacións (plural)
confederaçom (alternative)
confederação (alternative)


paisano

paisano m (plural paisanos, feminine paisana, feminine plural paisanas)

paisanos (plural)
paisana (feminine)
paisanas (feminine plural)

Ultimately from Old French païsan, itself from Latin pagus (“countryside”).

encamiñado a censurar ó Goberno pola súa apatía e indifrencia ante unha custión tan grave como é a emigración, i a reporbar certos medios, indinos i asquerosos que, por algús tratantes de carne humana se veñen pondo en práutica pra fomentar a espatriación dos nosos paisanos a lonxes terras.

in place to censure the Government because of its apathy and indifference to such a serious matter as it is emigration, and to reprove certain means, indignant and repulsive, that some human flesh traders are using to encourage the expatriation of our countrymen to distant lands.

a peasant (someone who lives in the countryside)


rosca

Unknown. Perhaps from a Germanic source *raþiską (“spinning object”), from *raþą (“wheel”); ultimately probably from Proto-Indo-European *Hret- (“to roll”).


visualización

Ese vídeo de YouTube ten 1.000.000 reproduccións.

view (an individual viewing of a video by a user)


concuñada

female equivalent of concuñado; co-sister-in-law


geólogo

geólogos (plural)
geóloga (feminine)
geólogas (feminine plural)


chabola

/t͡ʃaˈβɔla̝/


palestino

palestino m (plural palestinos, feminine palestina, feminine plural palestinas)

palestinos (plural)
palestina (feminine)
palestinas (feminine plural)


purificación

purificacións (plural)
purificaçom (alternative)
purificação (alternative)


reformista

reformista m or f by sense (plural reformistas)


náutica

From Ancient Greek ναυτῐκή (nautĭkḗ), from ναύτης (naútēs, “sailor”), from ναῦς (naûs, “ship”).


laboratório

reintegrationist spelling of laboratorio


sevillano

sevillano m (plural sevillanos, feminine sevillana, feminine plural sevillanas)

sevillanos (plural)
sevillana (feminine)
sevillanas (feminine plural)
sevilhano (alternative)

From Sevilla (“Seville”) + -ano (“-an”).


sevillana

(in the plural) songs and dances that are typical of Seville


espasmo

From Latin spasmus, from Ancient Greek σπασμός (spasmós).


centralización

centralización f (plural centralizacións)

centralizacións (plural)
centralizaçom (alternative)
centralização (alternative)

From centralizar + -ción; cognate with Portuguese centralização.


epitafio

epitafios (plural)
epitáfio (alternative)


amor

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese amor, from Latin amōrem.

inh+

Meu amor é mariñeiro
e vive no alto mar;
son os seus brazos o vento

O meu amor mariñeiro (1981), song by L. Álvarez Pousa and Xosé L. Rivas (Fuxan os Ventos)

My love is a sailor
and he lives in the high sea;
his arms are the wind:
no one can moor them


número de teléfono

gl-noun

número de teléfono m (plural números de teléfono)


números de teléfono

número de teléfono
número de teléfono#Galician


ibérico

ibérico m (plural ibéricos, feminine ibérica, feminine plural ibéricas)

ibéricos (plural)
ibérica (feminine)
ibéricas (feminine plural)


pregón

From Old Galician-Portuguese pregon (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin praecōnem. Cognate with Portuguese pregão and Spanish pregón.

logo apregôôu Fernan de Carnota, pregoeyro da dita villa de Muro, o qual Fernan de Carnota pregoou altas vozes em publica plaça as ditas herdades; et logo Aluaro Ledo disso que daua por llas ditas herdades de todo o dito alfoz que perteeçia ao dito Pero Eanes tres mill et seysçentos morauedis de moeda vella; asy andaron a pregon et leylla, et non vêêo quen mays pojasse nas ditas herdades

1399, M. Lucas Alvarez; M. J. Justo Martín (eds.), Fontes documentais da Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Pergameos da serie Bens do Arquivo Histórico Universitario (Anos 1237-1537). Santiago: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 268

then it was announced by Fernán de Carnota, town crier of said town of Muros, who announced in high voices in public space said properties; and then Álvaro Ledo said that he bid for all the properties belonging to said Pero Eanes in the town district three thousand and six hundred maravedis of old coinage; and so they were in auction and public sale, and nobody came to bid more for these properties


estoniano

estoniano m (plural estonianos, feminine estoniana, feminine plural estonianas)

estonianos (plural)
estoniana (feminine)
estonianas (feminine plural)


reíña

From Old Galician-Portuguese reỹa, raỹa, from Latin rēgīna.


taboleiro

board, plank or set of them when used to obtain an only surface


eurocomunista

eurocomunista m or f by sense (plural eurocomunistas)


etimoloxía

Borrowed from Latin etymologia, itself from Ancient Greek.


maratoniano

maratoniano m (plural maratonianos, feminine maratoniana, feminine plural maratonianas)

maratonianos (plural)
maratoniana (feminine)
maratonianas (feminine plural)


millar

Attested since circa 1300, from Medieval Latin milliaris. Cognate with Portuguese milhar and Spanish millar.

Sabean todos que eu Maria Peres, filla de Pero Ares, mareante, morador ẽna villa de Pontevedra, que soo presente, confeso et outorgo que devo et ey de dar et pagar a vos Ares Garçia de Rajoo, mercador, vesiño da dita villa, que sodes presente, dose millares de sardiña arenquada, boa et merchante

1433, A. Rodríguez González & J. Armas Castro (eds.), Minutario notarial de Pontevedra (1433-1435). Santiago de Compostela: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 48

Et tornãdo aqueles passos em estados, et os estados em millares, et os millares em legoas, acharedes y em cada quadra, segũdo esta conta, sete legoas et media, et [ẽnas] quatro quadras [trijnta] legoas; et por esta conta de çerto he que ouvo aquela çidade de [Babilonja trijnta] legoas ẽno çirco aderredor.

c. 1300, R. Martínez López, editor, General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV, Oviedo: Publicacións de Archivum, page 160:


millar

From Old Galician-Portuguese millar (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from millo + -ar.


lide

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin līs, lītem (“contention, strife”). Compare Spanish lid.


ascua

Debated. Perhaps from Proto-Germanic *askǭ (“ash, ashes”).

unk

Debated


ascua

Debated. From azcona, probably from Basque.

Debated


enchente

enchentes (plural)
enchenta (alternative)

encher (“to fill”) + -ente, from Old Galician-Portuguese encher, from Latin impleō (“to fill up”).


plató

Borrowed from French plateau. Cognate with English plateau.


canudo

From Old Galician-Portuguese canudo (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Hispanic Late Latin *cannūtus (“canelike”), from Latin canna (“cane”) Compare Portuguese canudo and Spanish canuto.

faz cristel de huun canudo longo et groso et meteo no cuu do Cauallo, et parao ao sopee et llançalle por aquel cristel aquella decauçon tibya, et tanto que lla llançares tapalle o Cuu con estopa ou con pano de gisa que non saya ende a decauçon

1409, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Tratado de Albeitaria, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 93:

prepare a enema with a long and thick tube and insert it in the ass of the horse, immobilize him and pour by the cane the lukewarm enema, and as soon as you have done that plug the ass with oakum or a cloth, so as the enema doesn't come out


espiga

From Old Galician-Portuguese espiga (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin spīca (“spike”).

part of the axis that protrudes past the wheel


papoula

papoulas (plural)
mapoula (alternative)
mapola (alternative)
marapola (alternative)

Borrowed from Andalusian Arabic حَبَّبَوْر (ḥabbabawr).


iconolatria

reintegrationist spelling of iconolatría


caridade

[kɑ.ɾiˈð̞a.ð̞ɪ]

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese caridade, from Latin cāritātem (“dearness, charity”), from cārus (“dear”), from Proto-Indo-European *kéh₂ros.

inh+

(uncountable) charity (providing of goods or money)


cagote

pear of the Plymouth pear (Pyrus cordata)

any small element used for ammunition of a blowpipe toy


meán

From Old Galician-Portuguese meão, from Latin mediānus. Doublet of mediano.

chain or strap that connects both rigid parts of a flail


pedreiro

gl-noun

pedreiro m (plural pedreiros, feminine pedreira, feminine plural pedreiras)

pedreiros (plural)
pedreira (feminine)
pedreiras (feminine plural)

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

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

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


estreito

From Old Galician-Portuguese estreito (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin strictus. Compare Portuguese estreito, Spanish estrecho and French étroit. Doublet of estrito, which was a borrowing.


marisma

Attested since circa 1300, from Old Spanish marisma, from Mozarabic, from Latin ora maritima.

saltwater marsh, tideland marsh; estuary


hucha

From Old Galician-Portuguese ucha (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), borrowed from Old French huche, from Medieval Latin hutica, perhaps of Germanic origin.

Iten lle mando dous mill mrs. de seysseens e de coroados que seen na hucha verde dos signaes daguyas que se no dito moesteiro de Santa Clara e a plata que en ela se.

1310, Anselmo López Carreira, editor, Ourense medieval: documentos e arquivos, d. 75:

Item, I send [to the monastery of Saint Claire] two thousand maravedies which are in the green chest with signs of eagles which is in the aforementioned monastery of Saint Claire, with the silver which is in it

acharedes en casa na mia ucha cinquoeenta uaras de lenço que seen ordidas et cinquo maranas de fiado cruu et tres de cozido

1348, A. López Ferreiro, editor, Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática, Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 152:

you'll find in my home inside my chest fifty yards of woven cloth and five skeins of raw thread and three of boiled


breva

brevas (plural)
bévera (alternative)
bévora (alternative)

From Latin bifera, feminine form of bifer (“flowering or fruiting twice each year”).

each one of the first figs of the fig tree which fruits twice each year


síndrome de inmunodeficiencia adquirida

síndrome de inmunodeficiencia adquirida f (uncountable)

acquired immune deficiency syndrome
acquired immune deficiency syndrome

(pathology) acquired immune deficiency syndrome


dignidade

Learned borrowing from Latin dignitātem (“worth, merit”).


brizo

brizos (plural)
birizo (alternative)
bricio (alternative)

Unknown. Perhaps from a substrate Celtic language, likely related to berro (“cress”); compare Gaulish berula.

Apium nodiflorum
Wikispecies:Apium nodiflorum

Nasturtium officinale
Nasturtium officinale#Translingual


isca

Circa 1300. From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin ēsca.

y achou cõ aquel arco hum estormento, et seu esqueyro, et sua ysca, et seu pedernal em el

c. 1300, R. Martínez López, General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV, Oviedo: Publicacións de Archivum, page 220:

there he found, together with that bow, a tinderbox, with its lighter, its tinder, and its flint inside it

tinder (dry plants used to light a fire)


necrofobia

necrophobia (exaggerated fear of death or the dead)


tesoiras

Attested from 1402. Plural of tesoira, from Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin tonsōria (forfex), from tōnsor (“hair cutter”), from tondeō (“I shear”). Compare Portuguese tesoura, Spanish tijera, Asturian tixeres, tisories, Catalan tisores.

dous piliquos et hua pele falisa et tres teseyras et huun coytelo de tallar

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

two hides and a pelt and three scissors and a knife for cutting


translación

translacións (plural)
translaçom (alternative)
translação (alternative)

transference (action of transferring or moving something)

a transfer, translation (product of transferring)


menoridade

minority, childhood; period of a person's life prior to reaching legal age


setentrión

Learned borrowing from Latin septentriōnem (“the north”).

(uncountable) north (cardinal direction)


gorxa

From Old French gorge, from Late Latin gurga, likely connected to Latin gurges (“a whirlpool, eddy, gulf or sea”).

cog

A muller do Serafiño
Por unha pinga rabéa,
Quérea de cote a probiña,
E se non bebe, toléa.
Parece un longo varal,
tratándose de viño,
Gorxa tan ancha ela mostra
Com’a canle dun bô muíño.
Pro, se non vai por azumbres,
Logo dí qu’é pouquiniño.

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

Serafin's wife
for a drop rages;
she wants it all the time, poor thing,
and if she doesn't drink she goes mad.
She seems a long rod,
but when it is about wine,
she shows a gorge as wide
as the flume of a good mill.
But, if it doesn't come by gallons,
soon she said that it is too little.


falante

gl-noun

falante m or f by sense (plural falantes)


restauración

Learned borrowing from Latin restaurātiōnem.


designación

designacións (plural)
designaçom (alternative)
designação (alternative)

Learned borrowing from Latin dēsignātiōnem.


institucionalización

gl-noun

institucionalización f (plural institucionalizacións)

* institucionalizar (“to institutionalize”) + -ción (“-tion”)


obradoiro

/ɔβɾaˈðojɾo̝/


obreiro

gl-noun

obreiro m (plural obreiros, feminine obreira, feminine plural obreiras)

obreiros (plural)
obreira (feminine)
obreiras (feminine plural)

From Old Galician-Portuguese obreiro, from Latin operārius.


obriga

obrigas (plural)
obliga (alternative)
oubriga (alternative)

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


obrigación

obrigacións (plural)
obrigazón (alternative)

From Old Galician-Portuguese obrigaçon, attested independently in both corpora. From Latin obligatio, obligationem, probably a semi-learned borrowing. Compare Portuguese obrigação.

Itẽ uos dou a obligaçõ que teño ſobre Johã Aras τ ſobre ſua muller Maria Peres, miña yrmáá, de quinẽtos ſoldos que me deuẽ

1310, 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 88

Item, I give you the obligation I have of Xohán Aras and his wife María Pérez, my sister, of five hundred solidi he owes me


beira

Uncertain. From Old Galician-Portuguese beira (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from ribeira, from Latin riparia (with unexplained elision of first syllabe), or rather from Paleo-Hispanic.

It. mando a Diego de Lemos meu primo a cota e bacerete [bacenete] de beyra et todas as outras armas de meu corpo

1404, A. López Ferreiro, editor, Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática, Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 172:

Item, I send Diego de Lemos, my cousin, my armour and helm with visor [forepiece?] and all the other pieces of my body armour


pufo

→ Spanish: pufo

Attested since circa 1845. Probably onomatopoeic.

O xestor deixou un pufo de 5 millóns de euros

The manager left a [irregular/undeclared] debt of € 5M

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 filled with unpaid debts till our heads

debt, specially when there is no intention to settle it


xogador

xogador m (plural xogadores, feminine xogadora, feminine plural xogadoras)

xogadores (plural)
xogadora (feminine)
xogadoras (feminine plural)

player, a participant in a game or sport