tradución

traducións (plural)
traduçom (alternative)
tradução (alternative)

Learned borrowing from Latin trāductiōnem (“transferring, translation”, literally “leading across”), from trādūcō (“to lead across”), from trāns (“across”) + dūcō (“to lead”).


endemoñado

gl-noun

endemoñado m (plural endemoñados, feminine endemoñada, feminine plural endemoñadas)

endemoñados (plural)
endemoñada (feminine)
endemoñadas (feminine plural)

Past participle form of endemoñar, from Latin daemonium, from Ancient Greek δαιμόνιον (daimónion), diminutive of δαίμων (daímōn, “god, divine power”).


formaxe

From Old French formage, from Medieval Latin fōrmāticum, from Latin fōrma (“mould”). Compare obsolete Spanish formaje.


ornitoloxía

Ultimately from Ancient Greek ὄρνις (órnis) + λόγος (lógos). Compare English ornithology.


xunco

From Old Galician-Portuguese junco, from Latin iūncus.

Et nõ vestiam vestidura nẽgũa cõmo os de agora; mays [hũus] ajuntauã cõ eruas et cõ juncos omellor que podiã das follas das aruores et das cortezas delas

1300, R. Martínez López, editor, General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV, Oviedo: Publicacións de Archivum, page 87:


sanguiño

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin sanguineus.

Frangula alnus
Frangula alnus#Translingual


carnoedo

carno + -edo. From Proto-Celtic *karnos, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂- (“horn”).


teixón

From Late Latin taxō, taxōnis, of Germanic origin (compare Dutch das, Old High German dahs, German Dachs), from Proto-Germanic *þahsuz. Cognate with Spanish tejón and Catalan teixó.


travesa

[t̪ɾaˈβ̞ɛ.s̺ɐ]

Feminine of traveso, from Latin transversus (“turned across, lying across”). Cognate with Portuguese travessa and Spanish traviesa.


evulsión

evulsións (plural)
evulsom (alternative)
evulsão (alternative)


gasolineira

petrol station, garage, filling station, gas station, service station


cortina de fume

gl-noun

cortina de fume f (plural cortinas de fume)

smokescreen (smoke used as a disguise, mask or cover, as of troops in battle)

(idiomatic) smokescreen (anything used metaphorically to conceal or distract)


encoro

reservoir, natural or artificial lake used as a source of water supply


galiñeiro

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin gallīnārium (“henhouse”), from gallīna (“hen”). Cognate with Portuguese galinheiro, Spanish gallinero, Catalan galliner and Italian gallinaio.


seeta

13th century. From Old Galician-Portuguese saeta, from Latin sagitta.

que seyron do dito castello os ditos tres omens e aderençaran a él por lo matar, dentro na dita vyña, e hun deles le puxara hua seta por lo matar, e quando vyra a balesta armada, que fogira por la vyña e foron pus él por llo matar, et de feyto o mataran con a dita seeta, senón Deus que o quyso gardar, e como le remesaran a dita seta, que le remesaran hua pedra e que le deran con ela ena caueça

1458, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 337:

that the aforementioned three men left the castle and came towards him for killing him, in that vineyard, and one of them took an arrow, and when he saw the crossbow armed he ran way, but they came after him for killing him, and actually they would have killed him with that arrow if not because God wanted to protect him, and as they threw that arrow, they also threw a stone which hit him in the head


medoña

Unknown. Perhaps from a Celtic term related to Latin meta (“conical heap”).

barrow; a type of megalithic structure found along Atlantic Europe consisting of a tomb (dolmen) inside a round, artificial hill once coated by a layer of stones


medorra

medorras (plural)
madorra (alternative)
medorna (alternative)


piñeiro

piñeiros (plural)
pinheiro (alternative)

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese pineyro. By surface analysis, piño (“pine tree, pinewood”) + -eiro.
Compare Portuguese pinheiro.

surf

pine (any coniferous tree of the genus Pinus, or similar)


vurullo

vurullos (plural)
borullo (alternative)
brullo (alternative)
burullo (alternative)
brulho (alternative)

Either a back-formation from envurullar or from Vulgar Latin voluclum. Cognate with Portuguese brulho, Asturian boruyo and Spanish orujo.

Estonces baixou, colleu o vulto onde seguían os laios, e veu que era un miniño metido nun vurullo rodeiado de vergas coma nunha cesta

1905, A. López Ferreiro, O Niño de Pombas:

Then he descended, picked up the bulge from where the cries kept coming, and he saw that it was a baby inside a wrapped cloth, surrounded by wickers as that of a basket

a cloth used to wrap babies up to when they are four or five months old


piringalla

bunch of grapes left in the vine after the harvest


cerqueiro

From Vulgar Latin *cerquus, from Latin quercus (“oak tree”), and a number of different suffixes; from Proto-Indo-European *pérkus (“oak”).

(botany) Pyrenean oak (Quercus pyrenaica)


vimieiro

vimieiros (plural)
vimbieiro (alternative)

From Old Galician-Portuguese vimieyro, from Latin vīminārius, from vīmen (“osier”).

Salix viminalis
Salix viminalis#Translingual


diaño

diaños (plural)
deño (alternative)
diallo (alternative)
dianllo (alternative)

Attested since circa 1536. From Old Galician-Portuguese diabo, earlier diaboo, displacing the collateral forms diabre, diabro and diablo; from Ecclesiastical Latin, Late Latin diabolus (“devil”) (probably borrowed as a semi-learned term), itself from Ancient Greek διάβολος (diábolos, “slanderer”).

der

(religion, fiction) devil; demon; fiend (creature from Hell)

(colloquial, with definite article) used to emphasise the extent of an action, usually one of a negative nature


perixel

perixeis (plural)
perexil (alternative)
prixel (alternative)

From Old Occitan pere(i)ssil, from Latin petroselinum, from Ancient Greek πετροσέλινον (petrosélinon), from πέτρα (pétra, “stone”) + σέλινον (sélinon, “celery”).

πετροσέλινον

parsley (a herb native to the Mediterranean whose leaves are often in cooking)


prixel

prixeis (plural)
perexil (alternative)
perixel (alternative)

πετροσέλινον


fiuncho do mar

gl-noun

fiuncho do mar m (plural fiunchos do mar)

Crithmum maritimum
Crithmum maritimum#Translingual


fionllo

fionllos (plural)
fiollo (alternative)
fiuncho (alternative)
fiúncho (alternative)

From *fenunclu, from Latin fēnuculum (“fennel”), a diminutive of Latin fēnum (“hay”). Cognate of Portuguese funcho and Spanish hinojo.

Foeniculum vulgare
Foeniculum vulgare#Translingual

fennel (bulb, leaves, or stalks eaten as a vegetable)


pesqueira

From Latin piscaria, from piscis (“fish”).

weir; damn used for capturing fish in the rivers


gabita

From Suevic [Term?] or Gothic; ultimately, related to Proto-West Germanic *gabulu (“fork”). Compare gabear (“to climb”).

long shafted hook used to attach an additional pair of animals to a kart or plough


deshumidificador

deshumidificador m (plural deshumidificadores)


deshumidificación

deshumidificación f (plural deshumidificacións)


videoporteiro

From video- + porteiro automático (doorporter/entryphone).

prefix

video doorphone, video entryphone, video intercom, video door entry


porteiro automático

gl-noun

porteiro automático m (plural porteiros automáticos)

entryphone, doorphone, intercom, interfone


moio

Sobeiament me pesa porque naçí, ca ia mays de mil moyos de sange de bõos caualeyros son ia uertudos por mj̃.

1370, R. Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana. Introducción e texto, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 591:

I'm really sorry, because since I was born more than a thousand moios of blood of good knights has been poured by me

a unit of volume, equivalent to 8 olas or 128 litres

(dated) a dry measure equivalent to 12 ferrados


ventrecha

ventrechas (plural)
veltrecha (alternative)

Attested since the 19th century. From Old French ventresche.

ventresca (flesh from the belly of a tuna, which is prepared in oil and served as food)

crotch (the ventral area of the human body between where the legs fork from the torso, in the area of the genitals)


galladura

/ɡaʎaˈðuɾa̝/

From galla + -dura, compound form probably derived from Vulgar Latin *gallea, from Latin galla (“oak-apple”) and suffix from Latin -tūra.


aixada

aixadas (plural)
anxada (alternative)
eixada (alternative)
enxada (alternative)
xada (alternative)

[a̠jˈʃa.ð̞ɐ]

15th century. From Vulgar Latin *asciāta, from ascia. Cognate with Portuguese enxada, Spanish azada, Catalan aixada, Occitan aissada.


regateiro

regateiro m (plural regateiros, feminine regateira, feminine plural regateiras)

regateiros (plural)
regateira (feminine)
regateiras (feminine plural)

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

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

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


gabia

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin cavea (“cavity”). Compare Portuguese gávea, gaiva.


porqueira

female equivalent of porqueiro (“swineherd”)


cortella

From Latin cohorticula, diminutive of cohors.

small stable or department inside it, specially when destined to sheep or goats


cortello

Attested since 1332. From cortella, from Latin cohorticula, diminutive of cohors. Cognate with Spanish cortijo.

small stable or department inside it, specially when destined to pigs, sheep or goats

Fillo, arromba o teu cuarto que está feito un cortello!

(derogatory, figurative) untidy and small place


subela

[s̺uˈβ̞ɛ.lɐ]

From Old Galician-Portuguese (compare Portuguese sovela), from Vulgar Latin *sūbella, diminutive form of Latin sūbula (“shoemaker's awl”).


fedello

fedello m (plural fedellos, feminine fedella, feminine plural fedellas)

fedellos (plural)
fedella (feminine)
fedellas (feminine plural)

Probably from feder (“to stink”). Cognate with Portuguese fedelho.


hedreira

hedreiras (plural)
adreira (alternative)
areira (alternative)
ireira (alternative)


aguillón

From Old Galician-Portuguese aguillon (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Vulgar Latin aculeō , from aculeus (“sting”). Compare Portuguese aguilhão, Spanish aguijón, French aiguillon.


aguillada

Attested since 1707. From aguillón (“sting”), suffixed with -ada. Cognate with Spanish aguijada.

Alberte falemos craros
nosoutros temos a culpa,
que se foramos armados
con aguilladas e chuzos,
ouberàmos de botalos
alò para en cas de Iudas.

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

"Alberte, let's we make this clear:
we are to blame,
because if we had been armed
with goads and spears
we would have driven them back
there until Judas's house."


menciña

menciñas (plural)
manciña (alternative)
meciña (alternative)
meiciña (alternative)
melecía (alternative)

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese meezinha (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin medicina (“drug”). Cognate with Portuguese mezinha. Doublet of medicina.

inh+

Et eu te ensinarey meezinas conuiniuijs para esta door que chaman uerme en esta maneira

1409, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Tratado de Albeitaria, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 81:

And I'll teach you the appropriate drugs for this pain that they call worm, in this manner


menciñeiro

gl-noun

menciñeiro m (plural menciñeiros, feminine menciñeira, feminine plural menciñeiras)

menciñeiros (plural)
menciñeira (feminine)
menciñeiras (feminine plural)
maciñeiro (alternative)
manciñeiro (alternative)
meiciñeiro (alternative)

traditional witch doctor or medicine man


pasteco

Borrowing from Ecclesiastical Latin pax tecum, "peace be with you".


medeiro

haystack, usually smaller than the meda, made in the fields by gathering the reaps of grain


rodriga

13th century. Either from a blend of Latin ridica (“vine-prop”) and rudicula (“spatula”), or from a Germanic compound (the modern form was probably influenced by the name Rodrigo, compare Proto-Germanic *Hrōþirīks). Compare also Spanish rodrigón.

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:


friaxe

friaxes (plural)
friagem (alternative)
friage (alternative)

cold weather; sudden drop in temperatures


moucho

Debated (the Galician diphthong is not compatible with the etymons proposed for the other Romance cognates). Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese moucho (first attested in 1421); probably from an adjective meaning "blunted". Compare Portuguese mocho and Spanish mochuelo.

unk

Debated

inh+

et outra leira jaz tras las casas da Quintãã, como vay topar aas pedras dos mouchos

1421, 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 623:

another field is behind the houses of Quintá, as it reaches the little owl stones

Athene noctua
Athene noctua#Translingual


balouco

baloucos (plural)
ballouco (alternative)

Unknown, unlikely from balancear: cf. Portuguese balouço.


baloco

Unknown. Probably from a substrate language, but ultimately from Proto-Indo-European. Compare English ball or Latin bulla.

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

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

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

Digitalis purpurea
Digitalis purpurea#Translingual


frechazo

* flecha + -azo
* (love at first sight): In allusion to the fired arrows by the mythological god of love Cupid.


amor a primeira vista

gl-noun

amor a primeira vista m (plural amores a primeira vista)

(idiomatic) love at first sight (an instantaneous attraction)


petón

Onomatopoeic: from *pett- + -ón. Compare peteiro (“beak”), peto (“woodpecker”).

boulder, rock, specially those found semi-submerged at the seashore


anglofóbico

anglofóbico m (plural anglofóbicos, feminine anglofóbica, feminine plural anglofóbicas)

anglofóbicos (plural)
anglofóbica (feminine)
anglofóbicas (feminine plural)


rechán

recháns (plural)
rechám (alternative)
rechão (alternative)
rechã (alternative)

From re- + chan (“plain”). Compare Spanish rellano.


xoaniña

xoaniñas (plural)
joaninha (alternative)

From Xoana (“Jane”) + -iña: "Little Jane". Cognate with Portuguese joaninha.


coiraza

15th century. Probably from Old Occitan coiraça or from Old French cuirace, from Latin coriacea, from Latin corium (“leather, hide”).

Torre de Rriãjo. O que rreçebeu Gonçaluo Mariño de Fernando de Catoyra cõ a casa e fortalesa de Rriãjo. Primeyramẽte: Húa cadea de ferro cõ seu cãdado e çinco farroupeas e dúas esposas. Hũas coyraças. Tres huchas. Tres ballestas: J de aseyro, IJ de pao. Quatro baçinetes. Hũu trono cõ seu serujdor e hũu fole de póluora. Dos carcaixes de biratõos. Hũu torno de armar ballesta.

1457, F. R. Tato Plaza, editor, Libro de notas de Álvaro Pérez, notario da Terra de Rianxo e Postmarcos, Santiago: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 171:

Tower of Rianxo. What Gonçalvo Mariño received from Fernando of Catoira, together with the tower-house and fortress at Rianxo. First: an iron chain with its padlock and five fetters and two handcuffs. Some cuirasses. Three chests. Three crossbows: one of steel, two of wood. Four bascinets. A bombard with its server and a skin of powder. Two quivers of bolts. A winch for charging crossbows.


alxofre

From Old Galician-Portuguese aljofre, from Arabic الجَوْهَر (al-jawhar, “jewel, pearl”), from Persian گوهر (gowhar, “jewel, pearl”). Cognate with Portuguese aljôfar and Spanish aljófar.


caldeireiro

gl-noun

caldeireiro m (plural caldeireiros, feminine caldeireira, feminine plural caldeireiras)

caldeireiros (plural)
caldeireira (feminine)
caldeireiras (feminine plural)

13th century. Caldeiro (“cauldron”) + -eiro. Cognate with Spanish calderero.


sortella

sortellas (plural)
sortelha (alternative)

From Old Galician-Portuguese sortella (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Vulgar Latin *sorticula, a diminutive from sors (“luck, fate”), but suffixed with -ella. Cognate with Portuguese sortilha and Spanish sortija.
Semantic connection seems to relate to superstitious beliefs concerning rings.

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

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

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


braceiro

braceiro m (plural braceiros, feminine braceira, feminine plural braceiras)

braceiros (plural)
braceira (feminine)
braceiras (feminine plural)

13th century. Brazo (“arm”) + -eiro. Cognate with Spanish bracero.


vehículo eléctrico

vehículo eléctrico m (plural vehículos eléctricos)

vehículos eléctricos (plural)
veículo elétrico (alternative)


faceiró

Faceira (“cheeck”) + -ó, a diminutive suffix derived from Latin -olus. Cognate Old Spanish aceruelo.


choio

19th century. Back-formation from choiar.

(colloquial) work; business; occupation; task; job


mascoto

Borrowed from Old Occitan mascoto (“sortilege”), diminutive of masca (“witch”), from Medieval Latin masca (“specter, nightmare”).

der

o dito vigario preguntou aos ditos Pero Lourenço e Estevoon Peres se feseran e tomaran a dita conta ben e verdadeiramente e sen nihuun enganno ou se entendian en ella erro ou mascoto alguun a alguna das ditas partes

1371, Anselmo López Carreira (ed.), Documentos do arquivo da catedral de Ourense (1289-1399), doc. 381

the aforementioned vicar asked the aforementioned Pero Lourenzo and Estevo Pérez if they made and took the aforementioned calculation well and truly, without any fraud, or if they found any error or trickery in any of the parts


xermolo

xermolos (plural)
xaramolo (alternative)
xoromelo (alternative)
xurumelo (alternative)

From a diminutive form of Latin germen (“germ”).


trasnada

trasnadas (plural)
trasgada (alternative)


papuxa

15th century. Papa (“pap, porridge”) + -uxa.

ponlle papuxas de farellos coytas en vinagre et con pouco de seuo

1409, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Tratado de Albeitaria, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 147:

apply a poultice of bran boiled in vinegar, with some tallow

(usually in the plural, archaic) pap, porridge; poultice


papuxa

Sylvia atricapilla
Sylvia atricapilla#Translingual


xeonlleira

xeonlleiras (plural)
xeolleira (alternative)
xoelleira (alternative)

Xeonllo (“knee”) + -eira; from Old Galician-Portuguese geolheira, geoleyra. Compare French genouillère.

inh

Item mando a ma loriga τ aſ maſ geoleyraſ a Martin Eaneſ, meu ſobrjno

1290, 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 139

Item, I send my mail and my poleyns to Martin Anes, my nephew


gorgoiro

/ɡoɾˈɣojɾo̝/

14th century. From Vulgar Latin *gurgurium (“windpipe”), from Latin gurges.

Et tendeu o arco o mays fortement que podo, et seytouo moy bẽ, et tiroulle do arco, et deulle perla garganta, et pasoulle a loriga, et talloulle os gorgoyros, et dou cõ el do caualo morto en terra, en meo da batalla

1370, R. Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana. Introducción e texto, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 506:

He extended the bow as strongly as he could, and he aimed very ably and shoot; and he hit near his throat, and the shot pierced his mail and cut his windpipe and knocked him down from his horse, dead, in the middle of the battle


gorgomil

gorgomís (plural)
gorgomela (alternative)
gorgomelo (alternative)

From Old Galician-Portuguese gorgomelo (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria); ultimately from Late Latin gurga (“gorge”), from Latin gurges (“whirlpool”). Cognate with Occitan gargamèla.

estas llandooas jnchanse de gisa que asy apretan as gorgomellas et estreitan o goto por que espira o Cauallo

1409, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Tratado de Albeitaria, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 89:

this glands swell to the point that they squeeze the throat and narrow the pipe through which the horse breathes


gorgueira

/ɡoɾˈɣejɾa̝/

13th century. From Late Latin gurga (“gorge”) + -eira. Compare Spanish gorguera.

ruff (circular frill or ruffle on a garment)

mando a Ares d'Alcantara o meu perponto, o meu lorigon, a ma gorgeyra τ cen mr. da guerra en dineyros polo que deleſ oue τ o meu capelo do fferro

1290, 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 138

I left Ares d'Alcántara my padded jerkin, my mail, my gorget, a hundred maravedis of war for what I had of them, and my iron helmet

(historical) gorget (a piece of armour for the throat)


gorgolo

From Latin gurges (“whirlpool”) + -olo. Compare gurgullón.


gorgola

gurgle, bubbling in the surface of the sea caused by the movement of a school


gorgolexo

Back-formation from gorgolexar (“to gurgle”). Compare Portuguese gorgolejo.


gorgozo

From Late Latin gurga (“gorge”), from gurges (“whirlpool”). Compare gorgolo, gurgullón.


gorgozada

/ɡoɾɣoˈθaða̝/

/ɡoɾɣoˈsaða̝̝/

14th century. Gorgozo (“throat, neck”) + -ada.

c. 1350, K. M. Parker (ed.), Historia Troyana, Santiago: Instituto "Padre Sarmiento", page 30

It was tossing gushes away, and they were falling around the fire and the hearthstone

deytaua as gorgoçadas fora, et cayam arredor do fogo et da lareyra


gurgullo

14th century. From Vulgar Latin *gurguliu, from gurguliō, from curculiō. Cognate with Portuguese gorgulho and Spanish gorgojo.

1390, José Luís Pensado Tomé (ed.), Os Miragres de Santiago. Versión gallega del Códice latino del siglo XII atribuido al papa Calisto I. Madrid: C.S.I.C., page 117

He who makes the weevils to be born in the beans and caterpillars in the trees with the help of none

Aquel que ẽnas fauas faz naçer os gurgullos et ẽnas aruores os vermẽes sen ajuda de nĩgẽ


gorga

Perhaps from an older *gorgõa, from Latin gorgona (compare Latin gorgonia, "coral", Pliny), from Ancient Greek Γοργώ (Gorgṓ), from γοργός (gorgós, “terrible”).

Cuscuta epilinum
Wikispecies:Cuscuta epilinum


mergullo

mergullos (plural)
amergullo (alternative)


somorgullo

somorgullos (plural)
amergullo (alternative)

Back-formation from somorgullar. Compare Spanish somormujo.


burgueiro

burgueiros (plural)
brugueiro (alternative)
murgueiro (alternative)


buxaina

Aco na Cruña, meu tio,
Chamanll’os trompos buxainas

1846, anonymous author, Carta de Cristobo:

Here in A Coruña, my uncle,
they call the spinning tops buxainas


celamín

celamíns (plural)
ceramín (alternative)
ceremín (alternative)

From Old Galician-Portuguese ceramin, from Andalusian Arabic, from Arabic ثُمُنِ (ṯumuni, “of one-eighth”). Cognate with Spanish celemín and Portuguese celamim.

(historical) Synonym of ferrado, a traditional Galician unit of dry measure and land area

ferrado

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.

(historical) celemin, a traditional Castilian unit of dry measure, roughly half of the Galician unit

(historical) celemin, a traditional Castilian unit of land area, roughly equivalent to the Galician unit


pescozada

Attested since the 14th century (pescoçada). From pescozo (“nape”) + -ada.


gabanza

[ɡɑˈβ̞an̪.θɐ]

[ɡɑˈβ̞an̪.θɐ]

[ħɑˈβ̞an̪.θɐ]

[ħɑˈβ̞an.sɐ]

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese gabança (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from gabar (“to praise”) + anza.

inh+

Et nõ estaua alý estonçe quen rrijsse, nẽ quen falasse en alegría nẽ en gabãça, mays ante estauã todos moy tristes et fazíã grã doo.

1370, Ramón Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, page 363:


ouriceira

ouriceiras (plural)
uriceira (alternative)

Ourizo (“burr; sea urchin; hedgehog”) + -eira.

suffix

place which abounds in either sea urchins or hedgehogs

place or open building used for gathering and ripening chestnut burrs


corripa

15th century. Probably from con- (“with”) + ripa (“lath; rib”), originally meaning either "wattle" (in the past both the laterals of the cart and the walls of the corripas were wattles), or "rib cage".

Iten mando Maria Afonso, moller de Juan do Souto, o foro da vinna que lavra Afonso Dias de Chavin, o vello, e o souto de Junqueyra que ajo con Juan Gommes, fillo de Roy Gommes, que foy de que me ha de dar a meatade, sacudido e colleyto enna corripa
Item, I left María Afonso, wife of Xoán de Souto, the contract of the vineyard which is worked by Diaz de Chavín, the old, and the orchad of chestnuts at Xunqueira, which I have together with Xoán Gómez, son of the late Roi Gómez; and she shall give me half of it [of the chestnuts], knocked down and collected in the corripa

1421, J. García Oro (ed.), "Viveiro en los siglos XIV y XV. La Colección Diplomática de Santo Domingo de Viveiro", Estudios Mindonienses, 3, page 74

open building or pen used for gathering and ripening chestnut burrs


randeeira

randeeiras (plural)
randeira (alternative)

Attested since circa 1800. From randear (“swing”) + -eira.

swing (hanging seat in a children's playground)

kind of crane used in traditional Galician kitchens to suspend a cauldron over the hearth


muíña

muíñas (plural)
moaña (alternative)
muña (alternative)

Attested from the 14th century. From muíño (“mill”).

daquel pam que ouuer na herdade limpo de palla et de munna

1329, 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 90

of the grain that the property has, clean of chaff and milldust

terça de castañas a a deçeda do canyço, secas et linpas de moyña

1412, M. Lucas Álvarez, P. Lucas Domínguez, editors, El priorato benedictino de San Vicenzo de Pombeiro y su colección diplomática en la Edad Media, Sada / A Coruña: Ediciós do Castro, page 138:

a third of the chestnuts, as they are took down from the wattle, dry and clean of chaff


muiñeiro

gl-noun

muiñeiro m (plural muiñeiros, feminine muiñeira, feminine plural muiñeiras)

muiñeiros (plural)
muiñeira (feminine)
muiñeiras (feminine plural)
moleiro (alternative)
molieiro (alternative)
moliñeiro (alternative)
mulieiro (alternative)
muñeiro (alternative)

14th century. From Latin molinarius (“miller”). Cognate with Portuguese moleiro and Spanish molinero.


muíño de vento

muíño de vento m (plural muíños de vento)

muíños de vento (plural)
muinho de vento (alternative)
moinho de vento (alternative)

Muíño (“mill”) + de (“of”) + vento (“wind”).


moega

moegas (plural)
moiega (alternative)
moxega (alternative)
muega (alternative)
muñega (alternative)
muxega (alternative)

Unknown. Perhaps from moer (“to mill”) or either from moio (“modius”) + -ego.


moella

moellas (plural)
moelha (alternative)
molexa (alternative)
muella (alternative)
muela (alternative)

debated. Perhaps from Latin *molellia. Compare Portuguese moleja, moela and Spanish molleja.

unk

debated

sweetbread (pancreas or thymus gland of an animal, especially as food)


brión

brións (plural)
abruón (alternative)
breón (alternative)
bruón (alternative)
veón (alternative)

peg under the bed of the cart used for tying and securing the load with ropes


galerna

a cold, humid northwesterly wind, northwesterly gale

Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández
w:gl:Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández

Instituto da Lingua Galega
w:gl:Instituto da Lingua Galega

Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “galerna”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega


guillado

gl-noun

guillado m (plural guillados, feminine guillada, feminine plural guilladas)

guillados (plural)
guillada (feminine)
guilladas (feminine plural)


tinalla

13th century. From a Vulgar Latin diminutive of tīna (“wine vessel”), from Etruscan 𐌈𐌉𐌍𐌀 (θina, “type of vessel”). Cognate with Portuguese talha and Spanish tinaja.

wine-vessel; frustum-shaped vessel used for the transport and treading of grapes


pallota

a temporary haystack or stack of reaps of grain or of stalks

a temporary hay litter used by shepherds


boticário

boticários (plural)
boticária (feminine)
boticárias (feminine plural)


escoupro

escoupros (plural)
escóuparo (alternative)
escoupre (alternative)

15th century. From Latin scalprum (“scraper”). Cognate with Portuguese escopro and Spanish escoplo.

iten un escoupre, iten vn traado, iten vnna tarabela, iten dous bingueletes, iten duas serras de mao

1485, Antonio López Ferreiro, editor, Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática, Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 286:

item, a chisel; item, a drill; item, an auger; item, two gimlets; item, two handsaws


papuxas

15th century. Papa (“pap, porridge”) + -uxa.


perrencha

Que perrencha colleu o meniño no centro comercial!

What a tantrum the child threw at the mall!


tecelán

tecelán m (plural teceláns, feminine tecelá, feminine plural tecelás)

teceláns (plural)
tecelá (feminine)
tecelás (feminine plural)

Accipiter nisus
Accipiter nisus#Translingual


inzo

Perhaps from an Old Galician-Portuguese *ĩĩço, from Latin initium (“beginning”) (thus a doublet of the borrowing início), or alternatively a back-formation from inzar. Compare Leonese eniciu (“seed”).


avinza

From Old Galician-Portuguese aviinça, a semi-leaned borrowing from Latin advenientia (“arriving”). Cognate with Portuguese avença and Spanish avenencia.

Conoscuda cousa seya a quantos este plazo viren e oyren como contenda fosse entre don hanrrique abade doya eo convento desse logar da huna parte eo Conçello e os alcaydes da Garda da outra sobre demandas e contendas que avian ontre si e a plazer das partes veeron aatal aviinça e aatal conposiçon [...]

1287, E. Portela Silva, editor, La región del obispado de Tuy en los siglos XII a XV. Una sociedad en expansión y en la crisis, Santiago: Tip. El Eco Franciscano, page 365:

This must be known to everyone reading or hearing this charter: that there were an argument in between Don Henrique, abbot of Oia and that place's convent, on the one hand, and the council and mayors of A Garda, on the other, about claims and disputes that they had; and pleasantly both parts arrived to this settlement and to this arrangement …

Esta he a auiinca ontre os vigarios e cabido dos canbeadores e os ouriuez que fazen a seu prazer de sy, huus et outros et per suas voontades et serviço de deus et del rrey et onrra da iglesiade Santiago et a seruico do concello et a prol dos da terra

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

This is the agreement in between the [gild's] vicars and chapter of the money exchangers and of the goldsmiths, that they do to their own pleasure, both for their own will, in the service of God and king, in honor of the church of Santiago and in the service of the city council and for the profit of the countrymen

Iten que acadastes vos o dito Gil Peres das aviinças dos moleiros da ribeira de Sarela et de duas viuvas, dusentos et seseenta moravedis de moeda vella que nos avian de dar o dito anno.

1418, Ángel Rodríguez González (ed.), Libro do Concello de Santiago (1416-1422). Santiago de Compostela: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 107

Ena çidade d'Ourense, des e sete dias do mes de desenbro, Ano Domini Mo CCCC L VIII anos, ena praça do Canpo, estando y presentes Gonçaluo Lopes, Gonçaluo Peres de Reqeixo, juises da dita çidade, Vaasco Gomes, Johán Cortydo, Martín do Cabo, rejedores, Nuno d'Ousende, procurador do conçello da dita çidade, en presença de min o notario et testemuyas de juso escriptas, outrosy estando y presente Gomes Mouro, gayteyro, logo os ditos juises et rejedores et procurador diseron que fasían aviinça et reçebyan por vesiño da dita çidade ao dito Gomes, gayteyro, por todo tenpo de sua vida e que se byese morar á dita çibdade e que pagase de cada hun ano avynça ao dito conçello des e oyto mrs de moeda vella

1458, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 191:

At the city of Ourense, seventeen days of December, Anno Domini 1458, at the Praza de Campo square; being present there Gonzalvo López, Gonzalvo Pérez de Requeixo, judges of this city; Vasco Gómez, Xohán Cortido, Martín do Cabo, councilors; Nuno de Ousende, representative of the city council; in the presence of me, the notary, and of the aforementioned witnesses; being also there Gómez Mouro, bagpiper; then the aforementioned judges and councilors and representative said that they will do a covenant to accept the aforementioned Gómez, bagpiper, as citizen of this city for life, and that he should come live here and pay each year as fee to this council eighteen maravedis of the old coin

(dated, frequently in the plural) annual fee paid as a consequence of an agreement or covenant


ouca

Unknown. Pobably from a substrate language, from *alka, and cognate with Asturian oca and Basque auka; less likely from Suevic [Term?].

Ranunculus aquatilis
Wikispecies:Ranunculus aquatilis


priscilianista

priscilianista m or f by sense (plural priscilianistas)


alfunín

funnel (utensil used to guide poured liquids)


empola

ampoule (small, hermetically sealed vial containing vaccine)

(anatomy) ampulla (dilated end of a duct)


arró

Unknown. Attested as arroo and arroio in medieval documents (15th century); probably from a substrate language.
Possibly compare arroyo (“creek, etc.”) and its etymology.

headland; hedge or strip of land between two adjacent farm plots, which is usually left fallow


correo postal

correo postal m (plural correos postais)


leilán

leiláns (plural)
leilám (alternative)
leilão (alternative)

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese leylam (attested since 1325). Probably from Arabic الإِعْلَام (al-ʔiʕlām, “notice, instruction”). Compare Portuguese leilão.

der

que o vendan todo e que o metan ao leylam a quem mays der por elo

1325, E. Portela Silva, editor, La región del obispado de Tuy en los siglos XII a XV. Una sociedad en expansión y en la crisis, Santiago: Tip. El Eco Franciscano, page 400:

they shall sell it all and put it on auction to see who pays more for it


aparcadoiro

Aparcar (“to park”) + -doiro, "place where".


matadoiro

Matar (“to kill”) + -doiro, "place where".


parladoiro

Attested from the 13th century. Parlar (“to chat”) + -doiro, "place where".

alcove by a window, with benchs, for talking; kind of parlor or sitting room


toxal

Attested from the 13th century, as togal and tojal. Toxo (“gorse”) + -al, "place with".


amencer

amenceres (plural)
amaecer (alternative)
amancer (alternative)
ameicer (alternative)
amañecer (alternative)
mencer (alternative)
amanhecer (alternative)

13th century (amaeçer). From Old Galician-Portuguese *amãescer, from Iberian Vulgar Latin *admanescere, from Latin mane (“morning”). Compare Portuguese amanhecer, Mirandese amanhecer, Asturian amanecer, Spanish amanecer.


granada de man

gl-noun

granada de man f (plural granadas de man)

(military) hand grenade (explosive device designed to be thrown by hand)


orizó

orizós (plural)
arizol (alternative)
orzón (alternative)
urizó (alternative)
urizol (alternative)
urzón (alternative)

From Latin hordeolus (“stye”, literally “little barley”). Cognate with Spanish orzuelo.

inh

(pathology) stye (bacterial infection of the eyelash or eyelid)


tirizó

tirizós (plural)
cericol (alternative)
chirizó (alternative)
terizó (alternative)
tirizol (alternative)
torzón (alternative)
tricó (alternative)
trizó (alternative)
trouzó (alternative)
turizó (alternative)

Uncertain. Cognate with Portuguese terçol.


lavadoiro

lavadoiros (plural)
lavadouro (alternative)
lavaduiro (alternative)

From Latin lavatorium, or from lavar (“to wash”) + -doiro. Compare Portuguese lavadouro.

lavoir, washing place; public or communal installation for washing clothes, frequently roofed


monllo

From Old Galician-Portuguese mãollo (13ᵗʰ century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Late Latin manuc(u)lus, modified ultimately from Latin manipulus, from manus (“hand”) and -pleō (“fill”). Cognate with Portuguese molho and Spanish manojo.

En certa aldea traballou o ano pasado certo labrador certa porcion de terra: chegada a recolleita foi a segar, e colleu vinte pares de monllos, deles pagou o señor cura duos pares do desmo, pagou nove o señor amo; logo veu o señor cura, e rapoulle cinco polas toucas, quedaronlle catro, mallounos, e non lle deron un ferrado

1814, Manuel Pardo de Andrade, Aos coruñeses:

in certain village last year certain farmer farmed certain apportion of land: as the harvest came he went to reap; he collected twenty pairs of sheaves; of them he paid two pairs to the priest for the tithe, nine he paid to the landlord; then the priest came again and snatched five for the ecclesiastical services; he was left with four; he threshed them and obtained less than half a bushel


partilla

partillas (plural)
partilha (alternative)

13th century. From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin particula, diminutive of partem (“part”). Doublet of partícula, a borrowing. Compare also Portuguese partilha and Spanish partija.

eu, Domingo Ferrandes, carpenteiro, vizino de Viueiro, faço partilla et pustaçon conuosco, Maria Martines minna yrmaa

1405, M. Mar Graña Cid (ed.), Las órdenes mendicantes en el obispado de Mondoñedo. El convento de san Martín de Villaoriente (1374-1500), Ferrol: Estudios Mindonienses, page 240

I, Domingo Fernandez, carpenter, citizen of Viveiro, made division and attribution with you, María Martinez, my sister

Iten libro e desembargo a Ines, miña sobriña, o oytabo do Casal da Grela, que labra Juan da Torre, e os outros tres oytabos mando que os aja para sempre por enmenda e satisfazon das partillas que foron feitas entre min e seus hirmaos.

1435, M. González Garcés, editor, Historia de La Coruña, A Coruña: Caixa Galicia, page 615:

Item, I freely grant to Inés, my niece, the eight of Casal d'Agrela, which is worked by Xoán da Torre; and the other three eights I grant her for possessing them forever, by amendment and satisfaction of this shareout that was made by me and her brothers

(law, usually in the plural) division; shareout (especially relating to an inheritance)

mando a mĩã cuñada, Costança Rodrigueσ, hun porco e dúas cabras da miña partilla

1453, J. I. Fernández de Viana y Vieites, editor, Colección diplomática del monasterio de Santa María de Pantón, Lugo: Diputación, page 232:

I grant my sister-in-law, Constanza Rodríguez, a pig and two goats of my lot


quiñón

From Old Galician-Portuguese quinnon, from Latin quiniōnem (“a group of five”). Cognate with Portuguese quinhão.

each fisherman's share or portion of the fish captured by his ship


harmonía

harmonías (plural)
harmonia (alternative)

From Latin harmonia, from Ancient Greek ἁρμονία (harmonía).


tenza

13th century (teença). From Latin tenentia (“holding, having”). Doublet of tenencia.
Compare Spanish tenencia and English tenancy.

a, usually long and narrow, forest or farm plot on communal ground


obenza

13th century (oveença). From Latin oboedientia (“obedience”). Doublet of obediencia.

(archaic) tenure (status of having a permanent post)

(historical) each job, position or profession in a late medieval Galician monastery, together with its assigned incomes and rents


habenza

14th century (avença). From Latin habentia (“having, owning”).

Et, senores, en esta çidade á moytos caualeyros et burzeses, et tẽen grandes auenças

1370, R. Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana. Introducción e texto, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 637:

And, gentlemen, in this city there are many knight and burgesses, and they haver large possessions

livestock, cattle (but restricted to sheep and goats)


antieuropeísmo

gl-noun

antieuropeísmo m (plural antieuropeísmos)


canizo

canizos (plural)
caínzo (alternative)
caízo (alternative)
queínzo (alternative)

From Old Galician-Portuguese caniço, from Vulgar Latin *cannicium, from canna (“reed, cane”). Cognate with Portuguese caniço, Spanish cañizo, Catalan canyís.

wattle (a construction of branches and twigs woven together)

wattle which, hanging horizontally from the kitchen's ceiling, near or over the fireplace, is used to dry and preserve chestnuts, chourizos and other foods, whilst preventing the sparks of reaching the ceiling

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

1894, Luís Otero Pimentel, Truada de rapaces:

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


retrinco

Back-formation from retrincar (“to grind, bite”).


canedo

Cana (“cane, reed”) + -edo: from Latin cannetum.


canaval

From canavea (“reed”) + -al. Compare Portuguese canavial and Spanish cañaveral.


camiño real

camiños reais (plural)
camín real (alternative)
camiño raal (alternative)
caminho real (alternative)

Camiño (“road”) + real (“royal; king's”): "King's road".


Camiño de Santiago

gl-noun

Camiño de Santiago m (plural Camiños de Santiago)

Camiños de Santiago (plural)
Camín de Santiago (alternative)
Caminho de Santiago (alternative)

Camiño (“way”) + de (“of”) + Santiago (“Saint James; Santiago de Compostela”): "Way of St. James".


feitura

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese feitura (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin factura. Doublet of factura.
Cognate with Portuguese feitura and Spanish hechura.


érbedo

érbedos (plural)
érbado (alternative)
írbedo (alternative)

From Vulgar Latin *erbitus, from Latin arbutus (“strawberry tree”). Cognate with Portuguese êrvedo.

Arbutus unedo
Arbutus unedo#Translingual

(botany) strawberry tree (Arbutus unedo, a small, fruit-bearing tree of Europe)


cortiza

Attested circa 1390. From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin corticea, feminine of corticeus (“of cork, of bark”), from cortex (“bark, cork”).

ẽna almẽdra son tres cousas: a cortiça da çima et a casca et a vianda de dentro

1390, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Os Miragres de Santiago, Madrid: C.S.I.C., page 117:

there are three things in an almond: the external husk, the peel, and the viand inside


ervellaca

ervellacas (plural)
arvellaca (alternative)
ervelloca (alternative)
ervillaca (alternative)
ervilhaca (alternative)

From ervella (“pea”) (compare also fabaca, from faba, "bean"). Cognate with Portuguese ervilhaca.

dedes ende a nos cada ano VI taleigas de çenteo et IIIes de millo et I d'orgo per taleiga et fanega de Ribadauia; et este pan deue a seer qual o Deus der no logar et seer linpo de palla et de poo, d'eruellada [eruellaca] et de mosceyra, et deue a seer ben seco et ben linpo et bõõ pan

1276, 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 375:

So to give us each year 6 bushels of rye and 3 of millet and 1 of barley, as measured by the bushel of Ribadavia; and this grain must be whatever God gives at that place, clean of chaff and dust, of vetch and unripe cereal, very dry and very clean and good cereal


fabaca

From faba (“bean”) (compare also ervellaca, from ervella, "pea").


fervello

Blend of fedello (“brat”) + ferver (“to boil”).


espiño

From Latin spinus (“thorn-bush”). Cognate with Portuguese espinho and Spanish espino.

Crataegus monogyna
Crataegus monogyna#Translingual

Prunus spinosa
Prunus spinosa#Translingual

thorn (sharp protective spine of a plant)


albedro

[ɑlˈβ̞e.ð̞ɾʊ]

From Vulgar Latin arbītum, from Latin arbutus (“strawberry tree”). Doublet of érbedo.


aldraxe

Borrowed from Old French oltrage (“excess”), from Late Latin *ultrāticum (“a going beyond”).

der

[ɑl̪ˈd̪ɾa̠.ʃɪ]


aldraxe

[ɑl̪ˈd̪ɾa̠.ʃɪ]


vitimismo

victimism, victimhood (tendency to act like a victim)


freixedo

From Old Galician-Portuguese *freyxẽedo, from Early Medieval Latin fraxinētum. Or, by surface analysis, freixo + -edo.


aceite de palma

gl-noun

aceite de palma m (plural aceites de palma)

aceites de palma (plural)
azeite de palma (alternative)


moimendro

Alternative form of meimendro (“henbane”)


arangaños

Hyoscyamus niger
Hyoscyamus niger#Translingual


arangaño

arangaños (plural)
aranganho (alternative)

/aɾaŋˈɡaɲo̝/

henbane (Hyoscyamus niger) (in plural form)


aceite de xirasol

aceite de xirasol m (plural aceites de xirasol)

aceites de xirasol (plural)
azeite de girassol (alternative)


aceite de colza

aceite de colza m (plural aceites de colza)

aceites de colza (plural)
azeite de colza (alternative)


glutón

From Latin gluttō, from gluttiō (“I swallow”).


moulán

mouláns (plural)
moulám (alternative)
moulão (alternative)


larfón

Attested since circa 1750. From larfar + -ón.


larpán

larpán m (plural larpáns, feminine larpana, feminine plural larpanas)

larpáns (plural)
larpana (feminine)
larpanas (feminine plural)
larpam (alternative)
larpão (alternative)

Attested since the 19th century. From larpar + -án.


froia

hole where wood is burnt to produce charcoal


comellón

comellón m (plural comellóns, feminine comellona, feminine plural comellonas)

comellóns (plural)
comellona (feminine)
comellonas (feminine plural)


larpeiro

larpeiro m (plural larpeiros, feminine larpeira, feminine plural larpeiras)

larpeiros (plural)
larpeira (feminine)
larpeiras (feminine plural)

Attested since the 18th century. From larpar + -eiro.


enchedoiro

enchedoiro m (plural enchedoiros, feminine enchedoira, feminine plural enchedoiras)

enchedoiros (plural)
enchedoira (feminine)
enchedoiras (feminine plural)

From encher (“to fill, stuff”) + -doiro.


papón

papóns (plural)
papom (alternative)
papão (alternative)

(Iberian folklore, mythology, fantasy) ogre; bogeyman


ueste

uestes (plural)
oeste (alternative)
O (alternative)
W (alternative)

Borrowed from French ouest, from Old English west.

(uncountable) the western portion of a territory or region

(countable) a western; a wind blowing from the west


barrigoto

bump (the swollen abdomen of a pregnant woman)


envexa

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese enveja, from Latin invidia. Cognate with Portuguese inveja.


loberno

From Proto-Celtic *loɸernos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wl(o)p- ~ *h₂ulp- (“(red) fox”).


ronsel

ronseis (plural)
rasel (alternative)
rosel (alternative)

Obscure. Perhaps related to German Runzel.

unk

Obscure

wake (the path left behind a ship on the surface of the water)


albariño

albariños (plural)
albarinho (alternative)

[ɑl.β̞aˈɾi.ɲʊ]

a variety of white wine grape grown in Galicia


furco

Attested from 1033 in local Medieval Latin charters. From Latin furca (“pitchfork”).

Iten, os ditos Gonçaluo Ferrnandes e Gonçaluo Ferreiro se obrigaron de trager pera a obra da ponte d'Ourense oyteenta trabes de carballo, que ajan cada hua viinte e sete cóbedos conpridos en longo et que sejan da grosura que diser Diego Afonso, e aja en cabo cada trabe hun furco de grosura, et eno outro cabo aquela gordura que rasonauel for, según diser o dito Diego Afonso.

1438, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 413:

Item, the aforementioned Gonzalvo Fernández and Gonzalvo Ferreiro committed to bring, for the work of the bridge of Ourense, eighty beans of oak, each one twenty seven cubits in long and the thickness that Diego Afonso would say, and in one extreme each bean must have one furco in thick, and in the other whatever thickness which is reasonable, according to what Diego Afonso would say

the distance between the outstretched tips of the index finger and thumb when used as a unit of measurement, equals to 1/6 of a vara, or 1/12 of a braza (fathom)


aninovo

one of many songs traditionally sung during New Year's day


cabodano

From cabo (“extreme”) + de (“of”) + ano (“year”). Compate Italian capodanno.

memorial service held on the anniversary of someone's death


maseira

maseiras (plural)
maxeira (alternative)
meseira (alternative)

From Old Galician-Portuguese masseyra: synchronically masa (“dough”) + -eira.

Iten, mando mays aa dita iglesia de Sant Pedro a miña caldeira e as gramalleiras e mesas e maseiras que teño eno forno de Millmanda

1414, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 105:

Item, I also bequeath to that church of Saint Peter my cauldron and the trammel and the tables and the troughs I have in the bakery of Milmanda


pregoeiro

Attested from the 13th century. Pregón (“announcement”) + -eiro. Cognate with Spanish pregonero.

Et fezerõ sobir hũu pregoeyro ena torre da mezquita que era çerca do alcaçer

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 533:

They made a crier go up to the mosque tower near the Moor's castle

Fernan de Carnota, pregoeyro da dita villa de Muro, o qual Fernan de Carnota pregoou altas vozes em publica plaça as ditas herdades
Fernán de Carnota, crier of this town of Muros; this Fernán de carnota announced out loud in public space these properties [to be auctioned]

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

Ano Domini millessimo CCCC XXX VII, a XI dias de jullyo, Domingo Fernandes, pregoeiro, feso venda et remataçón de tres legóos et hua machada

1437, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 295:

AD 1437, July 11, Domingo Fernández, crier, sold and auctioned three hoes and an axe

(historical) crier; town crier; town auctioneer

person (usually a celeb) who officially and publicly announces with a speech the town's festivities


arquiveiro

gl-noun

arquiveiro m (plural arquiveiros, feminine arquiveira, feminine plural arquiveiras)

arquiveiros (plural)
arquiveira (feminine)
arquiveiras (feminine plural)


almadraque

From Arabic مَطْرَح (maṭraḥ, “place where something is thrown”). Cognate with English mattress.

der

It. mando a mia cama. en que eu jasco. que som quatro almadraques. dos quaes ssom dous de ffroxel et huun dalgodon et outro de borra et con seu cabeçal et con duas colchas

1348, A. López Ferreiro, editor, Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática, Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 306:

Item, I bequeath my bed, the one where I lie, which is made of four mattresses, two of them of down, one of cotton, and one of wool, with its pillow and two quilts …


traveseiro

From Vulgar Latin *traversarius, from Latin transversarius, from trānsversus. Cognate with Portuguese travesseiro and Spanish travesero.


lanzoa

From Latin lanceola (“little spear”). Cognate with Spanish lanzuela.

buttercup, spearwort (Ranunculus flammula)


betoque

betoques (plural)
bitoque (alternative)
botoque (alternative)

From Old Occitan bartoc (“bung”), bartocar (“to plug”), or from Old French vertochier (“to plug”).

large nail for fastening the iron rim or tyre to the wheel of a Galician cart


laderno

Pistacia lentiscus
Pistacia lentiscus#Translingual


cadrifollo

cadrifollos (plural)
cabrifollo (alternative)
cabrinfollo (alternative)

[kɑðɾiˈfɔʎʊ]


chuchamel

chuchameles (plural)
chupamel (alternative)
sugamel (alternative)

Chuchar (“to suck”) + mel (“honey”). Compare English honeysuckle.


herdade

From Old Galician-Portuguese herdade, from Latin hereditas. Cognate with Portuguese herdade and Spanish heredad.

don Iohan Arias, o abbade de San Cloyo, por si et por seu conuento, estando presente Fernan Uellio, frontou et protestou, dizendo a Fernán Uellio et a Iohan Garçia, que estaua y presente, porque lles foran a os sous omẽẽs et a os sous seruizaes et a os sous foreyros de Lousende, que morauan ena sua herdade et que son seus uasallos per carta, et porque lles diseran que see non chamassen por seus uassallos; que qualquer que por seu uassallo se chamase, que lle britaran os brazos et as penas et lle choutarian no rio.

1269, M. Lucas Álvarez, Pedro Lucas Domínguez, editors, El monasterio de San Clodio do Ribeiro en la Edad Media: estudio y documentos, Sada / A Coruña: Edicións do Castro, page 342:

Don Johan Arias, abbot of Saint Claudius, on his behalf and on behalf of his convent, in the presence of Fernán Vello, confronted and protested Fernán Vello and Johan Garcia, who was present there, because they went to his men, and his serfs, and his tenants of Lousende, who dwell in his inheritance and are his vassals by charter; because they told to his men that they should not say to be his vassal, that anyone that would dare to say that was his vassal, that they would break their arms and legs and throw them into the river

herdade do Amenal, conmo jaz entre estacas et regos

1315, Manuel Lucas Álvarez, editor, Fontes documentais da Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 34:

plot of the Alderwood, in the way that it is limited in between stakes and ditches


anafil

From Andalusian Arabic النَفِير (annafīr), from Arabic نَفِير (nafīr). Cognate with Spanish añafil.

Sabean todos que seendo o conçello, justiça et homes bõos, regidores da çidade de Santiago juntados por crida de anafil, segundo que han de costume

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

Everyone should know this, that being the council, sheriff and good men, mayors of the city of Santiago reunited by the cry of the trumpet, as it's their custom …

(historical) a long, straight war trumpet or bucina used by the Moors


oceánide

(Greek mythology, Roman mythology) Oceanid


pillabán

gl-noun

pillabán m (plural pillabáns, feminine pillabana, feminine plural pillabanas)

pillabáns (plural)
pillabana (feminine)
pillabanas (feminine plural)

a rogue, a rascal, a trickster, a scoundrel


revellido

Re- + vello (“old”) + -ido (or either from *revellir, to make old vel sim). Compare Portuguese revelho and Spanish revejido.

Estás revellido! Xa nunca saes!

aged beyond its age: which or who looks, sounds or acts older than expected


accesibilidade

accesibilidade f (plural accesibilidades)

accessibility (the quality of being accessible, or of admitting approach)


pravoa

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


padal

From Old Galician-Portuguese paadar, paadal, from Vulgar Latin *palātārem, derived from Latin palātum. Cognate with Portuguese padar and Spanish paladar.

que se faz na boca do Cauallo hũa enfirmidade de jnchaço ou de llandooas llongas en maneira de amendooas que apertan de dentro as qeixadas tanto que o cauallo non pode comer, et aas uezes jnchase toda a boca et o paadal tanto que adur pode comer

1409, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Tratado de Albeitaria, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 113:

that is made in the mouth of the horse a disease of swelling or of long glands, in the manner of almonds, that tighten from the inside the horse's jaws, so much that the horse can't even eat, and sometimes all the mouth and the palate swell so much that hardly can he eat


murteira

From Latin myrta (“myrtle”), from Ancient Greek μύρτος (múrtos, “myrtle”), from a Semitic root M-R-R meaning bitter.

myrtle (evergreen shrub of the genus Myrtus)


anduriña

anduriñas (plural)
andolía (alternative)
andulía (alternative)
andoriña (alternative)
andurinha (alternative)

From Old Galician-Portuguese andorỹa (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from a Vulgar Latin root *harundina, from hirundina-, from Latin hirundō, hirundine; cf. also harundō, which may have influenced it. Cognate with Portuguese andorinha.

unha anduriña soa non fai verán

Hirundo rustica
Hirundo rustica#Translingual


gargallada

/ɡaɾɣaˈʎaða̝/


piarro

Onomatopoeic. Cognate with Mirandese parro (“duck”).

Garrulus glandarius
Garrulus glandarius#Translingual


amormeiramento

gl-noun

amormeiramento m (plural amormeiramentos)


furabolos

Fura (“pierces”) + bolo (“bun”). Compare Portuguese fura-bolos.

(informal, humorous) the index finger; literally: bun-piercer


tollemerendas

Tolle (“it takes away”) + merendas (“afternoon snacks”) (it grows in autumn, when days are shorter and merendas were no longer needed before diner).

compound

(botany, humorous) meadow saffron (Colchicum montanum)


quitamerendas

Quita (“it takes away”) + merendas (“afternoon snacks”) (it grows in autumn, when days are shorter and merendas were no longer needed before dinner).


mellora

14th century. Back-formation from mellorar. Compare Portuguese melhora and Spanish mejora.

mando a o dito meu fillo andreu em rraçon do terço et por rraçon de melloria sobre los outros seus yrmaos et yrmaas a mia casa forte de Cira et as armas et bastimento que y esteuer a tempo de meu finamento

1368, A. López Ferreiro, Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática, Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 348:

I bequeath the aforementioned Andreu, my son, because of the third and of the improvement over his brothers and sisters, my stronghold of Cira, with all the weapons and supplies that happen to be there at the time of my death

(law) share of a heritage which a person can freely bequeath to any of his or her heirs, and which exceeds that of the rest


mortaldade

mortaldades (plural)
mortaidade (alternative)
mortandade (alternative)

From Latin mortālitās (“mortality”). Doublet of mortalidade.

1352, A. López Carreira (ed.) Documentos do arquivo da catedral de Ourense (1289-1399), doc. 315

the properties, vineyards, houses and farms, gardens and fields that are in the jurisdiction of this city of Ourense and around, and in the jurisdictions that are from the bishop and pay taxes to the bishop, became wasted and deserted, and go wild, and the men don't want to nor can work them because of the following reasons and many others which would take long to say: a reason is because the farmers and the men who had then as tenants died during the mortality and pestilence that happened during the year of 1348, so few were left for working the lands, as it is notorious all throughout the bishopric of Ourense

os herdamentos, viñas, casas e casares, cortiñas et chousas que som en termio desta çidade d’Ourense et arredor dela et ennos coutos do dito señor obispo que son foreiras e tributarias ao dito señor obispo se herman e despobran e se van a monte et os ommes non as poden nen queren lavrar por estas rasoens que se seguen et outras moytas que serian longas de dizer: A huna razon he por que os ommes lavradores et aqueles que eran delas teedores commo foreiros morresen na mortaydade e pestilençia que foy enno anno da era de mill e trezentos e oyteenta e seys annos, en guisa que ficaron poucos para lavrar segundo he notorio per todo o bispado d’Ourense.


pega rebordá

pega (“magpie”) rebordá (“wild; of the forest”): "Forest magpie".


nordés

Attested since 1457. Borrowed from Old French nord-est.


tabán

tabáns (plural)
atabán (alternative)
tabao (alternative)
tábao (alternative)
tabau (alternative)

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


escoura

From a local Vulgar Latin scauria, with the derivative scaureta already attested in Medieval Latin charters since the 9th century; perhaps from a substrate language, or from Latin scoria under the influence of a substrate.


espenuca

espenucas (plural)
espiúca (alternative)


fastío

Inherited from Latin fastīdium. Cognate with Portuguese fastio and Spanish hastío.


forxa

Attested since the 14th century. Borrowed from Old French forge, itself from Latin fabrica. Doublet of fragua and fábrica.

que nehũu ourives non fose ousado de tẽer forja nen forjaron en sua casa et que todos lavrasen ennas ditas tendas e portales, segundo que senpre foron acostumados

1418, A. Rodríguez González (ed.), Libro do Concello de Santiago (1416-1422). Santiago de Compostela: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 149

no goldsmith should dare to have a forge inside his house, and every one of them shall work at his tents and portals, as it always was their use

forge (workshop in which metals are shaped)

forge (the act of beating or working iron or steel)


graña

From Old French grange. Doublet of granxa, also from French.

Et dardeſ cada anno quatro dias de ſeara a noſſa graña de Pineyra, ṽn dia a eſcauar, outro a pudar, outro a cauar, outro a rãdar

1303, 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 150

You'll give each year four days of work in our farm of Piñeira, one day for digging, another for prunning, another for hoeing, another for weeding


viorto

From a substrate language; cognate with Spanish vilorto and Basque bilur, idem.


banzado

Attested as vanzado from the 15th century: banzo (“crossbar; board”) + -ado. Cognate with Asturian banzáu.

commo topa en no rio contra as presas dos muynos et vanzado da dita ferraria

1431, 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 343

as it delimits by the river by the dams of the mills and pond of the aforementioned smithery


taboado

Attested as tavoado from the 14th century: táboa (“board”) + -ado. Cognate with Spanish tablado.

casa da rrúa do Canpo en que eu agora moro, a qual sse ten per parede e per touoado da hũa parte cõ hũa casa do cabidoo de Santiago, e da outra parte sse tẽ per tauoado cõ hũa casa de Domj̃ga Peres

1347, A. Fernández Salgado (ed.), A documentación medieval de San Bieito do Campo. Tese de licenciatura (inédita) presentada na Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, page 25

house in the Rúa do Campo street, where now I live, which is on one side, by wall and wooden wall, besides a house that belongs to the Chapter of Santiago, and in the other side is, by wooden wall, besides a house of Dominga Pérez


illargada

/iʎaɾˈɣaða̝/

13th century. From illarga (“flank, side”) + -ada.

as suas casas que estam en Villamaior cabo do trauado commo se departem da testada de çima da rua dos Ferreiros et da testada de fondo da rua do Perexe et da hua yllargada da rua que ven da Rua dos Ferreiros para a praça contra o trauado et da outra yllargada das casas que som de Afonso pedreiro

1377, E. Cal Pardo, editor, Colección diplomática medieval do arquivo da catedral de Mondoñedo, Santiago: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 193:

their houses that are in Vilamaior near the stand, as it delimits by their upper side by the Rúa dos Ferreiros street; by the lower side by the Rúa do Perexe street; by a lateral by the street that goes from the Rúa dos Ferreiros till the main square by the stand; and by the other lateral against the houses that belong to Afonso stonemason

(regional) lateral, side; each one of the two opposed and larger sides of a field or plot


toneleiro

toneleiros (plural)
toneiro (alternative)

Attested since the 13th century: tonel (“tun”) + -eiro. Compare Spanish tonelero.


cubeiro

Attested since the 13th century: cuba (“cask”) + -eiro. Cognate with Spanish cubero.


cascón

Attested since the 15th century: casca (“husk”) + -ón.

seys teegas de castanas secas et linpas et escolleytas dos cascõõs et do podre

1418, Sada / A Coruña, edited by Manuel Lucas Álvarez and Pedro Lucas Domínguez, El priorato benedictino de San Vicenzo de Pombeiro y su colección diplomática en la Edad Media, Ediciós do Castro, page 148:

six measures of dry and clean chesnuts, free of empty ones and of rotten ones


cascallo

cascallos (plural)
cascalho (alternative)

Casca (“husk, shell”) + -allo. Compare Portuguese cascalho and Spanish cascajo.


xudeu

gl-noun

xudeu m (plural xudeus, feminine xudía, feminine plural xudías)

xudeus (plural)
xudía (feminine)
xudías (feminine plural)
judeu (alternative)

From Old Galician-Portuguese judeu, judio, from Latin iudaeus (“Judaean”), from Ancient Greek Ἰουδαῖος (Ioudaîos), from Hebrew יהודי (Yehudi). Cognate with Portuguese judeu and Spanish judío.

c. 1350, K. M. Parker (ed.), Historia Troyana. Santiago: Instituto "Padre Sarmiento", page 185

the Pharaoh king, the one who died at the Red Sea when going after the Jews

el RRey Faraõ, o que morreu ẽno mar RRubio quando ya pos los judeus

Hu he aquel que he nado Rrey dos judeus? que nos vimos a estrela en ouriente, et vymoslo adorar

1390, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Os Miragres de Santiago. Versión gallega del Códice latino del siglo XII atribuido al papa Calisto I, Madrid: C.S.I.C., page 216:

Where is he who is born King of the Jews? Because in the East we saw the star and came here to adore him.

querendo cunplir e aguardar la ley quel Rey e Reyna nros señores avían feito, en que se contyña que suas Alteças mandauan apartar e faser apartamento en todos seus regnos a los judíos pera que morasen apartados de los cristiaos

1487, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 235:

wanting to accomplish and to obey the law that our lords, the king and queen, have made, which contained this: that our Highnesses ordered to separate and made a separate quarter, in all of their kingdoms, for the Jews, for them to live apart from the Christians


brúo

Attested since the 14th century (as bruyo). Back-formation from bruar.

Pero o esforçado Jason nõ sentio aqueles fogos, nẽ os bruyos dos touros que tam fortes erã

c1350', K. M. Parker (ed.), Historia Troyana. Santiago: Instituto Padre Sarmiento, page 23

But the courageous Jason didn't felt those fires, nor the bellows of the bulls no matter how strong they were

bellow (the deep roar of a bull or any other large animal)


capeirote

From Old Galician-Portuguese capeyrete, from Old Occitan capeirot. Cognate with Spanish capirote.

Et deytou o capeyrote atrás et bayxou hũ pouco o rrostro.

1370, R. Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana. Introducción e texto, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 503:

he threw back the hood and lowered a little his face


estormento

estormentos (plural)
estromento (alternative)
estrumento (alternative)

From Old Galician-Portuguese estormento, from Latin instrumentum (“instrument”).


carolo

inedible or hard inner nucleus of a fruit, such as an apple or a pear


carlou

Aporrhais pespelecani
Wikispecies:Aporrhais pespelecani

Charonia variegata
Wikispecies:Charonia variegata

Atlantic triton's trumpet (Charonia variegata)


boeta

A diminutive of Latin buxis (“box”), from Ancient Greek πυξίς (puxís, “box”), perhaps borrowed from Old French or Old Occitan.


semán

From Old Galician-Portuguese semana, from Late Latin septimāna (“week”), from the Latin septimānus (“related to the seventh element of a series”, adjective), derived from septimus (“seventh”).


nugallán

gl-noun

nugallán m (plural nugalláns, feminine nugallá, feminine plural nugallás)

nugalláns (plural)
nugallá (feminine)
nugallás (feminine plural)
nugallao (alternative)


preguiceiro

preguiceiro m (plural preguiceiros, feminine preguiceira, feminine plural preguiceiras)

preguiceiros (plural)
preguiceira (feminine)
preguiceiras (feminine plural)
perguiceiro (alternative)
priguiceiro (alternative)


arameña

arameñas (plural)
aramenha (alternative)

From arame (“copper, bronze”). First attested in the 14th c.

1281, 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 133

I bequeath my bowl and the copper mortar to St. Mary of Montederramo, for the chapel

Dou a mia arameña τ o morteyro de cobre a Santa Maria de Monte de Ramo para a capella.

et hua caldeyra et huum caldeyroon et huas greelas et huum speto de ferro et huum acetere et hua arameña et huas Gramalleyras et das outras perfeas de casa todos los bacios et escudelas et talladores et salseyros de fuste que ouuer na casa et hua mesa

1375, Antonio López Ferreiro, editor, Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática, Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 380:

and a cauldron, and a bucket, and a grill, and a skewer of iron, and a jug, and a pot of cooper, and a trammel; and of the rest of domestic ware, every bucket, and bowl, and knives, and saucers of wood that are in the house, and a table

(dated) metal bowl used for whisking eggs


aramio

Attested from the 14th century. From a substrate language, from Proto-Celtic (compare Irish ar (“tillage”)), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂erh₃- (“to plough”).

der

aforámosvos mais dous terreos darameo que jazen en Basillãõ

1404, J. I. Fernández de Viana y Vieites, editor, Colección diplomática del monasterio de Santa María de Pantón, Lugo: Servicio de Publicaciones de la Diputación Provincial de Lugo, page 116:

we rent to you two fields of cropland which lie in Basillao


berbia

From a substrate language, probably from Proto-Celtic *berwyā (compare Welsh berw (“to boil”)), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerwyeh₂ (“cascade”), from *bʰerw- (“to boil”).


ichó

From Old Galician-Portuguese *oschoo, from Latin ostiolum (“small door”). Cognate with Portuguese ichó.


valgada

Unknown. Perhaps from a local Vulgar Latin *vallicata, from vallis (“valley”); or else from a substrate language.

glen, dell, small valley in between mountains


regueira

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from rego + -eira.

(regional) crack (space between the buttocks)


vilariño

vilariños (plural)
vilarín (alternative)


carballeira

[kɑɾ.β̞aˈɟej.ɾɐ]

Attested since the 13th century. carballo (“oak”) + -eira. Cognate with Portuguese carvalheira.


sorbeira

sorba + -eira, from Latin sorbus. Cognate with Portuguese sorveira.

Sorbus domestica
Sorbus domestica#Translingual

Sorbus torminalis
Sorbus torminalis#Translingual

Sorbus aucuparia
Sorbus aucuparia#Translingual

Ribes uva-crispa
Ribes uva-crispa#Translingual


pradairo

pradairos (plural)
padrairo (alternative)

Attested since circa 1300 (pladayro). From Old Galician-Portuguese *pradãeyro, from Vulgar Latin *platanārius, from Latin platanus, from Ancient Greek πλάτανος (plátanos).

Acer pseudoplatanus
Acer pseudoplatanus#Translingual

sycamore, sycamore maple (Acer pseudoplatanus)


peirao

peiraos (plural)
peirau (alternative)
peirago (alternative)
peirán (alternative)

Attested since the 15th century. From Gascon Occitan peirau, from Latin *petratus.


ouceán

ouceáns (plural)
océano (alternative)
ouceao (alternative)
ouciao (alternative)


ouceao

ouceaos (plural)
océano (alternative)
ouceán (alternative)
ouciao (alternative)


ouciao

ouciaos (plural)
océano (alternative)
ouceao (alternative)
ouceán (alternative)


ambroesa

Attested since the 15th century. At face value, Ambroa + -esa, "from Ambroa"; or else from the same Germanic origin that French framboise.

I rent to you every walnut tree and cherry tree, with the exception of the ambroesas variety

1497, Maia, Clarinda de Azevedo (ed.) (1986): 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 124

(please add an English translation of this quotation)

todas las nugueras τ çerderas vos aforo a ſaluo as anbroeſas

a superior quality variety of cherries and cherry trees


vesada

vesadas (plural)
vessada (alternative)
avesada (alternative)

From older vessada, from Old Galician-Portuguese [Term?] (compare Portuguese vessar (“deep plowing”)), from Latin versare (“to turn over”).

ploughland; field which is ploughed with a heavy plough or carruca


chouso

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin clausus (“enclosed”). Compare Portuguese chouso, chousura and English close.


mexacán

From mexar (“to piss”) + cama (“bed”), because of its supposed diuretic properties. Compare English pissabed.


terroeira

terroeiras (plural)
tarroeira (alternative)
torroeira (alternative)
turroeira (alternative)

From Old Galician-Portuguese *terrõeyra: terrón (“clod”) + -eira.


cachena

(units of measure, dated) a small traditional unit of dry measure, inferior to a cunca ( ~ 1 l)

a small cattle breed from southern Galicia


carpaza

carpazas (plural)
carpanza (alternative)

Unknown. Probably from a substrate language, as many botanicals.

Cistus inflatus
Wikispecies:Cistus inflatus

Erica tetralix
Wikispecies:Erica tetralix

Calluna vulgaris
Calluna vulgaris#Translingual

heath, ling (Erica tetralix, Calluna vulgaris)


corneira

Cornus sanguinea
Cornus sanguinea#Translingual


garabullo

garabullos (plural)
gharabullo (alternative)
carabullo (alternative)
crabullo (alternative)
grabullo (alternative)

/ɡaɾaˈβuʎo̝/

From a substrate language, perhaps from the same origin that carba and carballo; possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kr̥-wós (compare Latin curvus, "bent").


garabito

/ɡaɾaˈβuʎo̝/


garabizo

garabizos (plural)
garaviço (alternative)

/ɡaɾaˈβiθo̝/


criptomoeda

From cripto- + moeda. Cognate with Portuguese criptomoeda and Spanish criptomoneda.


rella

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin rēgula. Cognate with Portuguese relha, Spanish reja and Catalan rella.

wooden or iron peg which internally connects the parts of a traditional cart wheel


chaguazo

chaguazos (plural)
chagazo (alternative)
chougazo (alternative)
zargazo (alternative)

Apparently borrowed from a Mozarabic *šaguarço, doubly-metathesized variant of *šaugaçro, from Latin salicastrum. Compare Portuguese sargaço (“gulfweed”), Spanish jaguarzo (“rockrose”).


chagorza

chagorzas (plural)
chagoza (alternative)

/t͡ʃaˈɣɔɾθa̝/


repolo

From re- + Latin pullus (“chick”). Compare Spanish repollo and Portuguese repolho.

Brassica oleracea var. capitata#Translingual

cabbage; Brassica oleracea var. capitata


acereiro

acereiros (plural)
azareiro (alternative)
azoreiro (alternative)

From Latin *acerarius, from acer. Cognate with Portuguese azereiro.


enganido

enganidos (plural)
anganido (alternative)

From enganir, probably from Gothic or Suevic [Term?], from Proto-Germanic *angô (“hook, angle”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂enk- (“something bent, hook”). Compare anga (“hook, handle”).


estribeira

Attested since the 13th century. From Old French estriviere (“stirrup”).


tixola

tixolas (plural)
tixela (alternative)
tijola (alternative)

From Old Spanish *tejola, Spanish tejuela, from tejo. Compare Portuguese tijolo.


teixelo

14th century. From Latin tāxillus, from tālus. Cognate with English tassel.


soarego

/so̯aˈɾɛɣo̝/

Soar (“plot”) + -ego. Compare Spanish solariego.


bolo do pote

bolos do pote (plural)
bolo de pote (alternative)

Literally, “pot bun”, because it is boiled in a pot rather than baked.


almorzo

From Old Galician-Portuguese *almorço, from Vulgar Latin *admordium, from admordeō (“I bite or gnaw at or into”). Cognate with Portuguese almoço and Spanish almuerzo.


freila

freilas (plural)
ceila (alternative)
feila (alternative)


antroido

Alternative form of entroido (“Shrovetide”)


xabardo

Obscure; perhaps from *enxamardo, from enxame (“swarm”) + -ardo, or a derivation of xebrar (“to separate”). Alternatively from Paleo-Hispanic. Compare Spanish jabardo (“swarm”) and the dialectal Portuguese javardo (“boar”), which is probably unrelated.

unk

Obscure

[…], ou o pousar dun xabardo nun castiñeiro covo—fendido por un raio—, […]

2015, Marcelino Salgueiro, Volframio, música e profecías, Meubook, page 33:

[…] , or the landing of an afterswarm on a hollow chestnut—cracked by a lightning—, […]

a small swarm; in particular, an afterswarm (the second, smaller swarm that leaves the hive in a year)


fogaza

From Old Galician-Portuguese (att. as fugaça, 13th c.; also found in local Latin documents since the 11th c.), from Late Latin focācium (via its plural focācia), derived from Latin focus (“hearth”). Compare Portuguese fogaça, Spanish hogaza.


inconstitucionalidade

gl-noun

inconstitucionalidade f (plural inconstitucionalidades)

unconstitutionality (the status of being unconstitutional)


caustra

caustras (plural)
calustra (alternative)

From Old Galician-Portuguese claustra, castra (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria); a semi-learned form from Latin claustrum (“cloister”).

Et tãto que fuj noyte, meteuse dentro ẽno tenplo de Apólinis, et ascondeuse y moy bem, que ẽno tẽplo auj́a caustras et bóuedas et camaretas en que orauã, et outros moytos lugares guisados pera esto.

1370, R. Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 575:

And as soon as it was night, he entered the temple of Apollo and he hid there very well, because in the temple there were cloisters and vaults and chambers where they prayed, and many other places suitable for this purpose


anano

anano m (plural ananos, feminine anana, feminine plural ananas)

ananos (plural)
anana (feminine)
ananas (feminine plural)

From Latin nānus, from Ancient Greek νᾶνος (nânos).


mexeira

(mildly vulgar) piss, and instance of pissing


carcán

From Old French carquais, from Byzantine Greek ταρκάσιον (tarkásion), from Arabic تَرْكَاش (tarkāš), from Persian ترکش (tarkaš), from earlier تیرکش (tirkaš, “quiver; arrowslit”), from تیر (tir, “arrow”) + کش (kaš, “container”).


braceleira

From Bracelo (“diminutive of arm”) + -eira.

bracelet (a band or chain worn around the wrist as jewelry or an ornament)


estrobo

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Late Latin strupus, from struppus (“strap”), from Ancient Greek στρόφος (stróphos, “thong”), from στρέφω (stréphō, “to twist”).


bordinga

/boɾˈðiŋɡa̝/

(architecture) putlog (one of the short pieces of timber on which the planks forming the floor of a scaffold are laid, one end resting on the ledger of the scaffold, and the other in a hole left in the wall temporarily for the purpose)


tiraboleiro

From Latin thūribulum (“thurible”) + -eiro; probably attracted by tirar (“to pull”). Compare English thurible.

Santiago de Compostela
Santiago de Compostela

one of several officials of the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela responsible for swinging the botafumeiro or main thurible


peluxe

peluxes (plural)
pelugem (alternative)
penuxe (alternative)

Either from pelo (“hair”) + -uxe or from Old French peluchier. Compare French peluche, Portuguese penugem and Spanish pelusa.


alcrique

From Andalusian Arabic الكَرِكِي (al-karikī), from Arabic كَرَاكِيّ (karākiyy), plural of كُرْكِيّ (kurkiyy).

Scomberesox saurus
Wikispecies:Scomberesox saurus

Belone belone
Belone belone#Translingual


froxel

Unknown: from Old Galician-Portuguese froxel (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), perhaps from Catalan fluixel, ultimately from Latin fluxus.

hũu cabeçal de frouxel

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 613:


penuxe

Blend of peluxe (“fluff”) + pena (“feather, pelt”) or reanalysis of pena (“feather”) + -uxe. Compare French peluche, Portuguese penugem.


xubileu

jubilee (the 50th anniversary of something)

(Roman Catholicism) jubilee (special year during which pilgrims to Rome receive special indulgences and remission)


carallada

Estivemos toda a noite de carallada.

Eran colegas había moito tempo atrás,
o nome do seu grupo non importa xa;

They were pals, for a long long time,
theirs group name won't really chime;
they had been playing for years, rather amateurishly,

—Non. Primeiro fíxolle gracia a nota e despois preguntou que quen escribira aquela carallada. —¿Carallada? ¿Dixo que era unha carallada? —Exacto, señor. Eu respondinlle que a escribira vostede.

2001, Paisaxes con palabras, Editorial Galaxia, →ISBN, page 56:

—No. First he had some fun reading the note, then he asked who wrote that nonsense. —Nonsense? He said that it was a nonsense? - Exactly, sir. I told him that you wrote it.


lambón

gl-noun

lambón m (plural lambóns, feminine lambona, feminine plural lambonas)

lambóns (plural)
lambona (feminine)
lambonas (feminine plural)
lambión (alternative)

Attested since 1746. From lamber (“lo lick”) + -ón.


peaxe

From Old Galician-Portuguese peage, and already attested in 12th century local Medieval Latin documents as pedagium vel sim; probably from Old French or Old Occitan. Cognate with Spanish peaje or English pedage.

1416, Á. Rodríguez González (ed.), Libro do Concello de Santiago (1416-1422). Santiago de Compostela: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 3

we let you know that said Kind our Lord exempted and made exempt and tax-free, by his privilege, all the neighbours and dwellers of this city, of all of said tolls and pedages

fazemosvos saber que o dito señor rey franqueou et feso exsentos et franquos por seu privellejo a todos los vesiños et moradores desta dita çidade de todos los ditos portadgos et peajes


escribán

From Old Galician-Portuguese escrivan (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Late Latin *scrība, *scrībānem, from Latin scrība (“writer, scribe”). Doublet of escriba, a borrowing.
Cognate with Portuguese escrivão and Spanish escribano.

Estas duas follas que de aqui faleçen tirey eu Rui Matines, notario, deste libro por quanto os escrivãaos de miña notaria lançaron ende algũas escripturas que non devian ser aqui asentadas

1417, A. Rodríguez González (ed.), Libro do Concello de Santiago (1416-1422). Santiago de Compostela: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 32

These two leaves that are lacking here were removed from this book by me Roi Martínez, notary, because the scribes of my office put there some scriptures which shouldn't be recorded here

(law, historical) clerk, registrar, scribe

Emberiza citrinella
Emberiza citrinella#Translingual


paisaxe

paisaxes (plural)
paisagem (alternative)

Cognate to Spanish paisaje, Portuguese paisagem.

landscape (portion of land or territory which the eye can comprehend in a single view)

landscape (a picture representing a scene by land or sea)


xaxún

xaxúns (plural)
xexún (alternative)
jajum (alternative)
jejum (alternative)

From Old Galician-Portuguese *jajun (attested in the plural jajũus, 13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin iēiūnium (“fast”), from iēiūnus (“hungry, abstinent”), from Proto-Italic *jagjūnos, itself from Proto-Indo-European *Hyeh₂ǵ-yu-, adjectival form of *Hyeh₂ǵ-ye/o- (“to sacrifice”). Compare Portuguese jejum, French jeûne and Spanish ayuno. Doublet of the borrowed xexuno.

Crees tu que atã grã pecado com̃o tu fezeche, que che seja perdoado por lagremas et por jajũus?

c. 1390, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Os Miragres de Santiago, Madrid, C.S.I.C., page 200:

Do you believe, given such a big sin as you did, that it will be forgiven through tears and fastings?

fast, fasting (period of time when one abstains from food)


costureiro

costureiro m (plural costureiros, feminine costureira, feminine plural costureiras)

costureiros (plural)
costureira (feminine)
costureiras (feminine plural)

Migeel Eanes, custureyro

1313, M. A. Enjo Babío (ed.), Colección documental del archivo de la cathedral de Ourense (s. XIV), Ourense: Universidade de Vigo, page 294


escolla

Back-formation from escoller. Compare Portuguese escolha.


pezuño

pezuños (plural)
bescuño (alternative)
pescunllo (alternative)
pezuncho (alternative)
pezunllo (alternative)
presullo (alternative)
presunllo (alternative)
presuño (alternative)
puxuño (alternative)
pezunho (alternative)

From Latin pedis ungula (literally “nail of the foot”). Compare Portuguese pezunho, Spanish pezuña.


parafascismo

Fascismos e parafascismos, así como algúns tradicionalismos parafascistas como a Action Française e os seus precedentes inmediatos, son movementos de etioloxía netamente urbana e moderna, que xorden e se desenvolven por mor dunha grave cise do capitalismo europeo e en resposta á proximidade da alternativa socialista.

2007, Justo G. Beramendi, De provincia a nación: historia do galeguismo político, Edicións Xerais de Galicia, →ISBN, page 541:


miñato

miñatos (plural)
minhato (alternative)
miato (alternative)
miñoto (alternative)
mioto (alternative)

From Old Galician-Portuguese *mĩato (cf. miñoca, niño), from a proto-Galician *milato cognate with Asturian milatu; from Vulgar Latin *mīlus, from Latin mīlvus, and the suffix -ato which usually forms youngs of animals (cf. baleato, lobato). Compare Spanish milano, Portuguese milhano, milhafre.

Milvus milvus
Milvus milvus#Translingual

Chelidonichthys lucerna
Wikispecies:Chelidonichthys lucerna


brenza

Cognate with Portuguese brinça and Spanish brizna.


cugula

From Old Galician-Portuguese cogula (“cowl”) (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin cuculla (“cowl”).


pasadoiro

pasadoiros (plural)
pasaduiro (alternative)

step of flight of steps for passing a wall


ástrago

Attested since circa 1300. From Late Latin astracum, astricum, from Ancient Greek ὄστρακον (óstrakon, “potsherd”). Cognate with French âtre, Italian lastrico and German Estrich.

der

Et tã grande era a morte que en eles fazíã que ia os ástragos dos paaços preçados et das casas todos erã cheos de sange

1370, R. Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 658:

So large was the killing they were doing there that even the pavements of the precious palaces and of the houses were full with blood

(regional) entryway and corridor or hallway of a traditional palloza house


proído

Attested since the 15th century. From Latin prūrītus (“itch”). Cognate with Portuguese pruído, prurido.

Auen aas uezes que eno collo et eno rrabo do Cauallo fazese sarna et proido que lle arriga da Reiz os cabellos et tanto o faz esfregar que se esfolla en todo.

1409, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Rufus, Jordanus: Tratado de Albeitaria, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 121:

Sometimes in the neck and the tail of the horse there is scabies and itch that tear up the hairs by the roots, and made him rub so much that he even flays himself

itch (a sensation that causes someone to want to scratch)


comechón

comechóns (plural)
comechom (alternative)
comichão (alternative)
comechão (alternative)

From Late Latin *comestiō, *comestionis, from Latin comestus. Compare Portuguese comichão and Spanish comezón.

itch (a sensation felt on an area of the skin that causes a person or animal to want to scratch)


liñar

Liño (“flax”) + -ar. Compare Spanish linar.


conqueridor

gl-noun

conqueridor m (plural conqueridores, feminine conqueridora, feminine plural conqueridoras)

conqueridores (plural)
conqueridora (feminine)
conqueridoras (feminine plural)
conqueredor (alternative)


conqueredor

conqueredor m (plural conqueredores, feminine conqueredora, feminine plural conqueredoras)

conqueredores (plural)
conqueredora (feminine)
conqueredoras (feminine plural)
conqueridor (alternative)


loito

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese luito, from Latin lūctus (“grief, sorrow”). Compare Portuguese luto.


cadorna

quail (any of several small species of game bird)


cogorniza

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin cōturnīcem.


buxola

Derived from Latin buxis (“box”), from Ancient Greek πυξίς (puxís).


orientacións sexuais

orientación sexual
orientación sexual#Galician


baladrón

Inherited from Latin balatrōnem (“clown, blabber”).


xenerosidade

xenerosidades (plural)
generosidade (alternative)

From Latin generōsitas or xeneroso + -idade.


transexualidade

From transexual + -idade or trans- + sexualidade.

A transexualidade deixará de ser tratada como unha enfermidade mental na clasificación internacional da OMS, a Organización Mundial da Saúde.

2018 June 19, “A OMS deixa de considerar a transexualidade como unha doenza mental”, in TVG:

Transsexuality will no longer be treated as a mental illness in the international classification of WHO, the World Health Organization.


desfragmentador

gl-noun

desfragmentador m (plural desfragmentadores)


asinante

asinante m or f by sense (plural asinantes)


adoutrinamento

adoutrinamento m (plural adoutrinamentos)


ideoloxización

ideoloxización f (plural ideoloxizacións)


consello

consellos (plural)
conselho (alternative)

Cantigas de Santa Maria
gl:Consello de Galiza

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese conselho (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin cōnsilium. Cognate with Portuguese conselho, Asturian conseyu and Spanish consejo.


perrecha

perrechas (plural)
parracha (alternative)
parrocha (alternative)


brandariz

beacon usually placed atop mountains and hills, and used to warn the locals of the proximity of an enemy army or fleet


corresponsabilidade

gl-noun

corresponsabilidade f (plural corresponsabilidades)


colexio electoral

colexio electoral m (plural colexios electorais)

(politics) polling station, polling station


cabina electoral

cabina electoral f (plural cabinas electorais)


colexio

First attested in c. 1300 (collegio). From Latin collēgium.


homosexualización

homosexualización f (plural homosexualizacións)


dereitista

dereitista m or f by sense (plural dereitistas)

(person, politics) right-winger, rightist (a person who belongs to the political right; a member of the right wing of a party or group)


cheque en branco

cheque en branco m (plural cheques en branco)

blank check (US), blank cheque (Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, UK) (a signed cheque with the value left blank)


fortalecemento

fortalecemento m (plural fortalecementos)


terxiversación

terxiversación f (plural terxiversacións)


negociabilidade

negociabilidade f (plural negociabilidades)

negotiability (the state of being negociable)


narcopiso

an apartment/flat where illegal drugs are sold and normally which has normally been squatted


dixitalización

dixitalización f (plural dixitalizacións)


sinxebra

[s̺inʲˈʃe.β̞ɾɐ]

Alternative form of xenxibre (“ginger”).


queixume

Cantigas de Santa Maria
gl:Queixumes dos pinos

From Old Galician-Portuguese queixume (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from queixa + -ume.

logo o dito Pascoal Rodrigues, procurador, deu queixume ao dito conçello dos omees que Afonso Sanches avía presos eno castelo d'Aluán

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 254:

then said Pascual Rodríguez, council agent, make a complaint before said council about the men that Afonso Sánchez had imprisoned in the castle of Alván


lobotomización

lobotomización f (plural lobotomizacións)


faceiroa

faceiroas (plural)
faceiró (alternative)

From Old Galician-Portuguese faceiroa: faceira + -oa.


desmobilización

desmobilización f (plural desmobilizacións)

From desmobilizar + -ción or des- + movilización.


inmobilización

inmobilización f (plural inmobilizacións)

From inmobilizar + -ción or in- + movilización.


inmobilidade

From in- + mobilidade or inmóbil + -idade.


dixitalizador

dixitalizador m (plural dixitalizadores)


cervexaría

cervexarías (plural)
cervexería (alternative)

beer bar, beer parlour, alehouse (pub or bar where beer is sold)


negrón

negróns (plural)
negrom (alternative)
negrão (alternative)


demagoxia

demagoxias (plural)
demagogia (alternative)

From Ancient Greek δημαγωγία (dēmagōgía) or demagogo + -ia.


xeobloqueo

(computing, Internet) geoblocking, geo-blocking


xeolocalización

xeolocalización f (plural xeolocalizacións)

From xeo- + localización or xeolocalizar + -ción.


xeolocalizador

xeolocalizador m (plural xeolocalizadores)

From xeo- + localizador or xeolocalizar + -dor.


cazola

From cazo + -ola. Compare Spanish cazuela and French casserole.


xeopolítica

geopolitics (the study of the effects of geography on international politics)


mazadura

mazaduras (plural)
maçadura (alternative)


groucho

/ˈɡɾowt͡ʃo̝/

a mouthful; gulp (the usual amount swallowed)

cottage cheese elaborated from bovine colostrum


castelanización

castelanización f (plural castelanizacións)

castelanizacións (plural)
castelanizaçom (alternative)
castelanização (alternative)


relón

relóns (plural)
relom (alternative)
relão (alternative)
rilón (alternative)
rolón (alternative)

Attested since 1409. Probably from relar + -ón. Cognate with Portuguese rolão.

Filla as violas e a alfavega da coo[v]ra e o gigante e as malvas, tanto de ũu como doutro, e coze todo desuu con poucos de reloes de orjo

1409, G. Pérez Barcala, editor, A tradución galega do "Liber de medicina equorum" de Joradanus Ruffus, Santiago de Compostela: USC, page 178:

Take violas and pellitory and hogweed and mallows, as much of one as of the others, and cook them all together with some barley bran


escolma

Back-formation from escolmar (“to select”),

back-formation

Neste volume presentamos unha escolma da nosa lírica medieval.

In this volume we present an anthology of our Medieval poetry.


livián

liviáns (plural)
levián (alternative)
liviao (alternative)
leviám (alternative)
levião (alternative)
liviám (alternative)
livião (alternative)

From Old Galician-Portuguese livião (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Vulgar Latin *leviānus, from Latin levis. Cognate with Spanish liviano and Portuguese livão.

(usually in the plural, of animals) lights, lungs


vrán

vráns (plural)
vrau (alternative)
verán (alternative)
vram (alternative)
vrão (alternative)

From Vulgar Latin (tempus) *veranum, from Latin vēr (“spring”).


vrau

vraus (plural)
vrán (alternative)
verán (alternative)


remuíño

remuíños (plural)
derremuño (alternative)
redemuíño (alternative)
redemuño (alternative)
remuín (alternative)
remuniño (alternative)
remuño (alternative)

From re- (“again”) + muíño (“mill”). Compare Portuguese remoinho, Spanish remolino.

alý hu o mar fazía rremuño

1370, R. Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 717:

there where the sea was making a whirlpool

vortex, whirlpool, whirlwind, dust devil

eddy (air or water running in an opposite direction to the main current)


escarabana

escarabanas (plural)
esgarabana (alternative)

Perhaps from carambo, carámbano (“icicle, ice”), but compare Portuguese gravanada.


carambo

Perhaps ultimately from Latin calamus. Alternatively, from a substrate language. Cognate with Spanish carámbano.


apeladoira

apeladoiras (plural)
apeladoiro (alternative)
apeladoura (alternative)

wooden brake of a traditional cart, which caused the wheels and axle to produce a squeaking sound

pieces which secure the axle of a cart to the cart's bed, which in traditional carts produced a squeaking sound


trelo

algún caído en trelos desa natureza tamén compara co lume á beira das estopas.

1887, Rufino Ribera Losada, O que son os casamentos pola nova:

some who have fallen in these kind of affairs [romantic love] compare them to the fire by the tows


recuncho

A meniña xogaba ás agachadas en cada recuncho da casa.

The little girl was playing hide and seek in every nook of the house.


curruncho

currunchos (plural)
corruncho (alternative)

Attested since circa 1750. Unknown. Perhaps related to Welsh cwr (“corner, edge”), from Proto-Celtic *kurros.

A meniña xogaba ás agachadas en cada curruncho da casa

The little girl was playing hide and seek in every nook of the house

Por mor de certa rabuxa
pelengrinei por Europa
marexaba vento en popa
pero dixen ¡ai da puxa!
xa lle vin o rabo á cruxa,
ando feito un sapo cuncho

Because of certain rage
I pilgrimaged along Europe
I was sailing with tailwind
but I said to myself, geez!
I've already seen the owl's tail
and I'm look like a tortoise
I'm getting back to my native corner


piolla

stain or decay caused by dampness in a fabric

(by extension) skin or superficial sickness on plants or animals


piollo pato

piollos patos (plural)
pollo pato (alternative)

Blend of piollo (“louse”) + carrapato (“tick”)

blend

Talitrus saltator
Wikispecies:Talitrus saltator


pulga da area

Pulga (“flea”) + da (“of the”) + area (“sand”)


lufiada

*lufia + -ada; perhaps ultimately from Proto-Germanic *lōfô (“palm”).


tabuela

tabuelas (plural)
taborela (alternative)

Vanellus vanellus
Vanellus vanellus#Translingual


descrición

descricións (plural)
descrição (alternative)
descriçom (alternative)

Learned borrowing from Latin dēscrīptiōnem.


folguista

gl-noun

folguista m or f by sense (plural folguistas)