muruxa

muruxas (plural)
muruja (alternative)
maruxa (alternative)
meruxa (alternative)
miruxa (alternative)
moruxa (alternative)
muruxe (alternative)
muraxe (alternative)

From Vulgar Latin *murāgō, *murāginis. Cognate with Portuguese murugem, Spanish murajes and French mouron.

Stellaria media
Stellaria media#Translingual


fuíña

From Old French fouine, from Latin fagina.


batume

Unknown: perhaps from bater (“to strike”) + -ume.

(uncountable) Material used as bedding for animals

(uncountable) seaweeds when used as fertilizer


amádego

Attested since the 13th century. From amo (“master”) + -ádego.


mordomádego

mordomádegos (plural)
mordomádigo (alternative)

13th century. Mordomo (“steward”) + -ádego.


bravádego

bravádegos (plural)
bravádigo (alternative)

[bɾaˈβaðɪɣʊ]

Attested since 1436. From Bravo (“wild”) + -ádego.


portádego

portádegos (plural)
portádigo (alternative)

[pɔɾˈtaðɪɣʊ]

From Late Latin portāticum, from Latin porta (“door”). By surface analysis, porta + -ádego. Doublet of portaje, a borrowing from French. Cognate with Spanish portazgo.

(historical, taxation) tariff, customs, toll paid by goods


riádego

riádegos (plural)
reádego (alternative)
riádigo (alternative)

From Old Galician-Portuguese [Term?], from Medieval Latin rivaticum, from Latin rivus (“stream”). By surface analysis, río + -ádego. Cognate with French rivage.

Oriolus oriolus
Oriolus oriolus#Translingual


pinador

gl-noun

pinador m (plural pinadores, feminine pinadora, feminine plural pinadoras)

pinadores (plural)
pinadora (feminine)
pinadoras (feminine plural)


vilán

From Old Galician-Portuguese vilão, from Late Latin vīllānus (“farm worker”), from Latin vīlla. Compare Portuguese vilão and Spanish villano.

que se el acordaua que vyra morar en a dita granja et pousa da Torre escudeyros et omes fidalgos et vilaaos, et que nunca eles nin alguos deles pagaron pedidos ne moedas ni outros trabutos alguus aos Reys de Castela.

1417, 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 (Publicacións do Seminario de Estudios Galegos), page 585::

… that he remembered how he saw squires and noblemen and villeins dwelling in that farm and inn of the tower, and that never they or any of them paid petitions or taxes or any tribute to the Kings of Castille

Cando o vilán enriquece, a ninguén coñece.

When the rustic gets rich, he knows no one.

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

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

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


vinganza

vinganzas (plural)
vingança (alternative)

From Old Galician-Portuguese vingança, vengança, analysable as vingar + -anza. Compare Portuguese vingança and Spanish venganza.


salgadeira

trough used for salting and preserving meat or fish

installation for the industrial preparation of salted food


multiculturalidade

multiculturalidade f (plural multiculturalidades)


estruga

[es̺ˈt̪ɾu.ɣ̞ɐ]

[es̺ˈt̪ɾu.ɣ̞ɐ]

Deverbal from estrugar, from Latin *exurticare (“to nettle”).

Torpedo marmorata
Wikispecies:Torpedo marmorata

marbled electric ray (Torpedo marmorata)


bagaxa

Perhaps borrowed from Old Occitan bagassa (“whore”), from Gallo-Roman *bacassa ("servant").


buxeu

From Old French bouchier (“goat slaughterer”), from Old French bouc (“goat”), of Germanic origin. Cognate with English butcher.


marón

maróns (plural)
marom (alternative)
marão (alternative)


brexo

uncultivated moisty patch of land, furze field


xiroscopio

xiroscopios (plural)
giroscópio (alternative)


misóxino

gl-noun

misóxino m (plural misóxinos, feminine misóxina, feminine plural misóxinas)

misóxinos (plural)
misóxina (feminine)
misóxinas (feminine plural)

From Ancient Greek μισόγυνος (misógunos).


misándrico

misándrico m (plural misándricos, feminine misándrica, feminine plural misándricas)

misándricos (plural)
misándrica (feminine)
misándricas (feminine plural)
misândrico (alternative)


vaga de calor

A calque: vaga (“wave”) de (“of”) calor (“heat”).

O outro día, luns, marcou o inicio dunha vaga de calor digna de ser recordada.

2006, Truman Capote, “Summer Crossing”, in Cruceiro de verán, Editorial Galaxia, →ISBN, page 95:

The next day, Monday, marked the start of a memorable heatwave.


toxo arnal

toxos arnais (plural)
toxo arnau (alternative)

Ulex europaeus
Ulex europaeus#Translingual


lagarto arnal

lagarto arnal m (plural lagartos arnais)

lagartos arnais (plural)
lagarto arnao (alternative)
lagarto arnau (alternative)

[lɑˈɣ̞ɑɾ.t̪ʊ aɾˈnɑɫ]

[lɑˈɣ̞ɑɾ.t̪ʊ aɾˈnɑɫ]

[lɑˈħɑɾ.t̪ʊ aɾˈnɑɫ]

jewelled lizard, ocellated lizard (Timon lepidus); a large lizard species traditionally held in Galicia to be poisonous


navalla

[naˈβ̞a̠.ɟɐ]

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

Et tragíã seus escudos enbraçados et suas lanças ẽnas mãos, et moytos deles tragíã hũas azcũas grãdes et anchas de açeyro, linpas et cortadores cõmo nauallas

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

They brought their shields on, and their spears in their hands, and many of them brought large and wide javelins of steel, clean and cutting as razors

Dimpois de comer dúas cuncas de caldo, deitouse na cama, sacou da faltrica do chaleque dous cigarros e unha navalla e liando un pito, púxose a fumegar polas ventas das narices, o mesmo có tren.

1891, José Barral Campos, O amigo de S. Pedro:

After eating two bowls of broth he laid down on the bed; he took two cigars and a pocketknife from the vest's pocket and, rolling a cigarette, began to throw smoke by the nostrils, not unlike a train


cabuxo

Meu querido Pai
Non s’azañe prego
S’esta carta escribo
Posta nestes versos:
Nin tome cabuxo
S’ô castellan deixo
Por falar na fala
Dos nosos galegos,
Qu’inda nela podo
Sin poñer un erro
Espricar bem craro
Tod’os meus conceutos.

1842, Juan Manuel Pintos, Meu querido pai:

My beloved father
I ask you not to anger
if this letter I write
put into these verses
neither get upset
if Castilian I left
to speak the tongue
of our Galicians,
because in it I can,
without making a mistake,
explain crystal clear
all of my concepts.


rebinxe

rebinxes (plural)
rebinge (alternative)
rabuxa (alternative)
rebincha (alternative)
rebixe (alternative)

From Latin rōbīgīnem (“mildew, rust”), attracted to rabecha, perrencha (“tantrum”). Cognate with Portuguese rabugem.

swirl formed by hog’s hair upon its back


callau

From Proto-Celtic *kalyāwo- (“stone”), either from a local Celtic substrate or a borrowing from Old French or Old Occitan. Compare French caillou.

bateu n-unha corredoira en forma de embudo, ancha na entrada, estreita no cabo, no cal a cerraba un valo de terra e callaus

1905, Antonio López Ferreiro, O niño de pombas, page 5:

he ended in a funnelled sunken lane, wide in the entrance, narrow in the other extreme where it was closed by a wall made of earth and stones


calixen

From Latin cālīgō, cālīginis (“fog”). Compare Portuguese caligem, Italian caligine.


sóma

(literary, proscribed) Alternative form of sombra


cobiza

From Old Galician-Portuguese cobiiça (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin *cupiditia, from cupiditās. Cognate with Portuguese cobiça and Spanish codicia.

Máis cobiza de traballar e menos preguiza!

seendo juntados con don pero ferz. de Castro endeantado mayor ena fronteyra et pertigueyro mayor de santiago a servicio de deus et de noso señor el rey don alfonso et a prol de todo o reyno de galiza por dar a cada un o seu et refrenar a cobiza dos maos que en una ora rouban et consumen os averes que os omens ganan en gran tenpo con gran traballo et por guardar os ordenamentos do dito señor el rey ca como diz a ley pouco aproveytaria a os principes fazer dereytos senon ouvese quen os fizese guardar

1339, Antonio López Ferreiro, editor, Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática, Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 370:

being all together with Don Pedro Fernandez de Castro, Governor of the Frontier and First Minister of Santiago, in the service of God and of our lord the king Don Alfonso and in favor of the whole Kingdom of Galicia, to give each one his own, to restrain the greed of the bad ones who in an hour rob and consume the assets and properties that men gain in a long time and with great effort, and for warding the legislation of the aforementioned lord the king, because, as the Law says, of little use would be for the princes to make laws if there was no one to enforce them


heterófobo

heterófobo m (plural heterófobos, feminine heterófoba, feminine plural heterófobas)

heterófobos (plural)
heterófoba (feminine)
heterófobas (feminine plural)


augueiro

augueiros (plural)
agoeiro (alternative)
agüeiro (alternative)
augüeiro (alternative)

[au̯ˈɣei̯ɾʊ]

From Latin aquarius (“water carrier”), or from auga + -eiro.


lagarteiro

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

1894, Luís Otero Pimentel, Truada de rapaces:

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

Falco tinnunculus
Falco tinnunculus#Translingual

kestrel, common kestrel (Falco tinnunculus)


peneireiro

Lophius piscatorius
Lophius piscatorius#Translingual


robra

From an older revora (13th century), from Latin rōburā (“oak; strength”).

meal or feast held as corroboration of a deal

meal or feast held after a communal, usually unpaid, work


albaroque

[ɑl.β̞aˈɾɔ.kɪ]

From Spanish alboroque, from Ladino ברוך (baruh, “blessed”), from Hebrew בָּרוּךְ (bārūḵ, “blessed; congratulations!”) used by Jewish merchants to congratulate for a bargain, compare Arabic مَبْرُوك (mabrūk, “blessed; congratulations!”).

cog

meal or feast offered to a group of hired workers after finishing the work


regoldo

[reˈɣ̞ɔl̪.d̪ʊ]

[reˈɣ̞ɔl̪.d̪ʊ]

From regoldar, probably from Latin *regurgitare, from gurges (“gorge”). Cognate with Spanish regüeldo. Compare also English regurgitate.


mornal

From a hypothetical *morenal: compare Galician morea (“heap”), from *morena, and Spanish morena.

ordered heap made with bundles of cereal


musgaño

musgaños (plural)
muraño (alternative)
murgaño (alternative)
musganho (alternative)
murganho (alternative)
morganho (alternative)
muranho (alternative)
musaranho (alternative)

[muz̺ˈɣ̞ɑ.ɲʊ]

[muz̺ˈɣ̞ɑ.ɲʊ]

[muz̺ˈħɑ.ɲʊ]

From Latin mūsarāneus (literally “spider mouse”) because the bite of some shrews can be venomous. Compare Portuguese murganho, Spanish musaraña, French musaraigne.


peonalización

2018 December 10, “A peonalización da zona centro e a remodelación da praza de Armas”, in CRTVG:


bruxaría

bruxarías (plural)
bruxeiría (alternative)
bruxería (alternative)

Debe ser cousa de bruxaría!


xogral

From Old Galician-Portuguese jograr (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), ultimately from Latin ioculāris (“jocular, laughable”). Cognate with Portuguese jogral and Galician juglar.


alvardán

alvardáns (plural)
alvardám (alternative)
alvardão (alternative)


chantaxista

gl-noun

chantaxista m or f by sense (plural chantaxistas)


telelixo

Un alegado a favor da Poesía nestes tempos paupérrimos nos que o telelixo o fagocita todo"

2011, Reme Vázquez, “Libros recomendados - Verbas de sal”, in CRTVG:

2011 July 25, “"O telelixo acuñárona os que desprezan a televisión"”, in La Opinión A Coruña:

(colloquial, derogatory) trash TV, junk TV


escornabois

Apparently a composite of escornar (“to gore”) + bois (“oxen”)

Lucanus cervus
Lucanus cervus#Translingual

stag beetle (Lucanus cervus, a large species of beetle)


muricego

[mu.ɾiˈθɛ.ɣ̞ʊ]

[mu.ɾiˈθɛ.ɣ̞ʊ]


murcego

[muɾˈθe.ɣ̞ʊ]

[muɾˈθɛ.ɣ̞ʊ]

[muɾˈθe.ɣ̞ʊ]

[muɾˈθɛ.ɣ̞ʊ]


criminalidade

From Latin criminalitas or criminal + -idade.

crime (practice or habit of committing crimes; criminal acts collectively)

criminality, criminalness (state of being criminal)


estranxeirismo

estranxeirismo m (plural estranxeirismos)

(countable) loanword, foreign word, borrowing

(uncountable) foreignism (fondness for foreign cultures)


incendio forestal

incendio forestal m (plural incendios forestais)

wildfire (fire that affects a wildland area)


esquí acuático

esquí acuático m (plural esquís aquáticos)

(uncountable) water skiing (the sport of skiing on water)

water ski (type of ski used for skiing on water)


xardón

Uncertain: from a substrate language and probably related to Spanish zarza.


xardón

Ultimatelly from Arabic حَرْذُون (ḥarḏūn); compare Portuguese sardão and Spanish fardacho.

der

Arabic حَرْذُون (ḥarḏūn)

(regional) ocellated lizard (Timon lepidus)


merdento

/mɛɾˈðɛnto̝/

Stercorarius skua
Stercorarius skua#Translingual


chourela

From *souro (“dry”) + -ela. Compare chourizo.

sausage made of offals, meat, fat or bacon, and vegetables, mainly onion or pumpkin


porcallán

gl-noun

porcallán m (plural porcalláns, feminine porcallana, feminine plural porcallanas)

porcalláns (plural)
porcallana (feminine)
porcallanas (feminine plural)
porcalhám (alternative)
porcalhom (alternative)
porcalhão (alternative)


porcalleiro

porcalleiro m (plural porcalleiros, feminine porcalleira, feminine plural porcalleiras)

porcalleiros (plural)
porcalleira (feminine)
porcalleiras (feminine plural)


porcallada

A moreniña fina, xentil, criada na miseria e na porcallada cun pai zapateiro borrachón, unha nai rifona, vendedora de carqueixas no portal, e un fato de irmáns enlarafuzados, sempre cheos de croques e mancaduras do frío e dos cantazos

1932, Otero Pedrayo, Contos do camiño e da rúa, page 66:

The thin, gentle little brunette, grown up in the misery and the filth of a drunkard father, shoemaker; a grumpy mother, seller of brushwood at the gates; and a bunch of dirty-faced brothers, always covered with bumps and injuries because of cold and pebbles


ecoloxista

ecoloxista m or f by sense (plural ecoloxistas)

environmental activist
environmental activist


parapléxico

parapléxico m (plural parapléxicos, feminine parapléxica, feminine plural parapléxicas)

parapléxicos (plural)
parapléxica (feminine)
parapléxicas (feminine plural)


asasino en serie

asasino en serie m (plural asasinos en serie, feminine asasina en serie, feminine plural asasinas en serie)

asasinos en serie (plural)
asasina en serie (feminine)
asasinas en serie (feminine plural)

serial killer (person who commits multiple murders)


masculinismo

From masculino + -ismo, as opposed to feminismo (“feminism”).

masculinism, masculism (advocacy of men's rights)


masculinista

From masculino + -ista, as opposed to feminista (“feminist”).


traíña

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Vulgar Latin *traginō (“to drag, pull”), from Latin trahō. Compare also treinar (for the evolution from Latin, compare also reinar and raíña).
For cognates in other languages, compare English train.

long fishing net traditionally used for fishing sardine


baloca

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


castaña da terra

castaña da terra f (plural castañas da terra)

castañas da terra (plural)
castaña de terra (alternative)

From castaña (“chestnut”) + da (“of the”) + terra (“soil; earth”).


liñaza

From Old Galician-Portuguese linaça (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from liño + -aza. Compare Portuguese linhaça and Spanish linaza.


bagaña

From baga (“berry”) + -aña. Compare Sicilian vajana.


papoia

Probably related to papoula, from Latin papāvera, plural form of papāver (“poppy”).

Chroicocephalus ridibundus
Chroicocephalus ridibundus#Translingual

black-headed gull (Chroicocephalus ridibundus)

Coccinella septempunctata
Coccinella septempunctata#Translingual

seven-spot ladybird (Coccinella septempunctata)


fragulla

fragullas (plural)
frangulla (alternative)
farangulla (alternative)
faragulla (alternative)

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


farangulla

farangullas (plural)
faragulla (alternative)
farangulla (alternative)
fragulla (alternative)


asubío

Back-formation from asubiar. Cognate with Portuguese assobio.

Et fáçome marauillado onde seýo tal rrecado et tal siso et tal paráuoa, et por quanto quirría oýr tanger õme enpús de ssy cornos et braados et gritos et apupos et asouj́os leuantados

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

And I am wondering where such message and though and word came from, and why would a man want to hear horns playing and shouting and screams and boos and hisses at him


pitiño

morre afogado antr'as pallas o pitiño que non chía

1863, Rosalía de Castro, Cantares Gallegos:

he dies, drowned among the straw, the chick that doesn't tweet


salabardo

salabardos (plural)
zalabardo (alternative)
zarabardo (alternative)


limacha

limachas (plural)
alimacha (alternative)
lumacha (alternative)

(figuratively) Someone dependent; someone disregarding or ignorant of another's personal space


limáchega

limáchegas (plural)
lagáchema (alternative)
lamáchega (alternative)


gobernabilidade

gobernabilidade f (plural gobernabilidades)


cordón sanitario

cordón sanitario m (plural cordóns sanitarios)


alfiestra

Probably from Mozarabic *alfenestra, from Latin fenestra (“window”).

(nautical) eye in the rudderhead, for attaching the tiller


chapeu

First attested in 1671. Either from French chapeau or from Old French chapel (compare Old Galician-Portuguese chapel). Doublet of capelo.

Pediu un chapeu de labrego e unhas gafas.

He asked for a farmer's hat and glasses.


xudicialización

xudicialización f (plural xudicializacións)


carapucha

carapuchas (plural)
carrapucha (alternative)


estronca

Perhaps ultimately from Proto-Germanic *strangiz (“string”).

loaded rope used to cut, by means of a mobile knot, a stuck fishline


laña

the act of preparing fish for curing it, which implies opening and gutting


laño

underwater fissure or den where octopuses and eels use to hide


bortel

borteis (plural)
bortelo (alternative)
brotel (alternative)


leirón

leiróns (plural)
lairón (alternative)
lurión (alternative)

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from a Vulgar Latin *glirionem or *glērionem, probably from Latin glīs, glīris, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gl̥h₁éys (“weasel, mouse”). Compare the related forms lirio, liranco, leiranco. Compare Spanish lirón, Catalan liró, French liron.


retrocompatibilidade

gl-noun

retrocompatibilidade f (plural retrocompatibilidades)

backward compatibility
backward compatibility


chedeiro

chedeiros (plural)
chideiro (alternative)

Attested since the 15th century. From cheda + -eiro.

Iten, preçaron duas grades e hun chedeiro e dous temoos de cerna, a parte dos menores em quorenta :XL -? maravedis

1474, Antonio López Ferreiro, editor, Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática, Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 74:

Item, they appraised two grates, a cart's bed and two shafts of heartwood, the part corresponding to the kids, 40 coins

bed or platform of a traditional Galician cart


pendello

pendellos (plural)
pendelho (alternative)

From Latin *pendiculus (compare English pendicle).

shed; roof annexed to a wall and sustained by pillars; lean-to


responsabilización

responsabilización f (plural responsabilizacións)


nial

niais (plural)
neal (alternative)
niallo (alternative)

From Latin *nīdālis, nīdālem, from nīdus + -ālis.


niñeiro

niñeiros (plural)
liñeiro (alternative)
neeiro (alternative)
nieiro (alternative)


gobelete

From French gobelet, from Old French gobel, from Old Occitan gobel (“to swallow up”), from Gaulish *gobbos, from Proto-Celtic *gobbos (“muzzle, snout, beak”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵoph₃o- (“eat”).

der

beaker (ceramic drinking vessel with handles)


cális

From Old Galician-Portuguese calez, caliz, from Latin calix, calicem, from Ancient Greek κύλιξ (kúlix).


guímaro

20th century. Borrowed from Spanish jíbaro, from Jivaroan xivar (“people”).


bagullo

Either from Latin *bacuculus, diminutive of bāca (“berry”), or from bago + -ullo.


andosco

gl-noun

andosco m (plural andoscos, feminine andosca, feminine plural andoscas)

andoscos (plural)
andosca (feminine)
andoscas (feminine plural)

Unknown. Perhaps ultimately from Vulgar Latin *annoticus, with change of suffix from Latin annotinus.

(figured, literary) rogue, rascal, scoundrel


lampantín

lampantíns (plural)
lapantín (alternative)
lampantim (alternative)

Attested since circa 1750. Probably from lapar (“to lick, lap”).


touzo

From Old Galician-Portuguese touço (“launching log”) (13th century, used by the Galician author Lopo Lias), from a substrate language, from Proto-Indo-European *tewh₂- (“to swell”).


xenreira

xenreiras (plural)
senreira (alternative)
sinreira (alternative)
xanreira (alternative)

Unknown. Attested since circa 1750. Perhaps from an older *renxeira, from renxer (“to grind one's teeth”), but the earlier attestations, until the last quarter of the 19th century, are always spelled senreira, sinreira, not xenreira, which makes this proposal unlikely.

O outro día pola mañá cedo, o rapaz achegouse onda min qu'inda estaba no leito, e dixome: «meu pai; voulle collendo unha xenreira ós que viven na ciudá, que si pillo a un solo nun carreiro, sobolle as costelas canto pódea»

1877, O Tio Marcos da Portela, 39, p. 155:

The other day, early in the morning, my child came to me, I was still in bed, and told me: «my father; I'm growing such a grudge against the ones living in the city that if I find one alone at a road, I'll knead his ribs as much as I can»

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

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

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


lambonada

lambonadas (plural)
lamboada (alternative)


pampo

pampos (plural)
fampo (alternative)
zampo (alternative)

From Latin pampinus. Cognate with Portuguese pâmpano, Spanish pámpano.

(botany) shoot or stem of a vine with leaves; vine branch

bunch of grape that are inadvertently left in the vine after vintage


pampillo

pampillos (plural)
pampilho (alternative)
pampirlo (alternative)
pampullo (alternative)

Perhaps from a diminutive of Latin pampino. Cognate with Portuguese pampilho.

Coleostephus myconis
Coleostephus myconis#English

(botany) marigold
corn marigold (Coleostephus myconis)

Chrysanthemum segetum
Wikispecies:Chrysanthemum segetum

(botany) marigold
corn marigold (Chrysanthemum segetum)

Calendula officinalis
Calendula officinalis#Translingual

(botany) marigold
pot marigold (Calendula officinalis)


maravalla

maravallas (plural)
maravalha (alternative)

From Latin *barbalia, or perhaps from Latin millefolia (“a thousand leaves”). Compare marfollo.

(botany) pot marigold (Calendula officinalis)

Lactuca virosa
Wikispecies:Lactuca virosa

(also collective) any herb or weed used to feed animals


maravallada

maravalladas (plural)
marfallada (alternative)

(also collective) herb or weed used to feed animals

(also collective) seaweed collected along the seashore and used as fertilizer


marfollo

From Latin malum folium ("bad leaf"). Compare maravalla.


buxana

Probably from Asturian guxanu or Spanish gusano, from Paleo-Hispanic.


fondal

From fondo + -al. Compare Italian fondale.


tornecelo

tornecelos (plural)
tornacelo (alternative)
tornocelo (alternative)

From Middle Galician tormezelo, from Old Galician-Portuguese, from *turmo (“bulk, swelling”) + -celo, from a substrate language. Cognate with Portuguese tornozelo.


tamouca

Vanellus vanellus
Vanellus vanellus#Translingual


xacer

From Old Galician-Portuguese jazer (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Vulgar Latin iacere. Cognate with Portuguese jazer and Spanish yacer.

1813, Xan de Mingucho, (a letter)

I'm badly rested (lit. I'm in bad rest), because this last night some bad souls stripped six oaks which I had in great esteem, as they are doing to many others, just for selling the bark to the furriers of the factories

estou de mal xacer, porque nesta noite pasada unhas malas almas me esfolaron seis carballos que tiña moi estimados, como o están facendo a outros moitos, solo por vender a casca ós coireiros das frábecas


nortello

nortellos (plural)
nartelo (alternative)
ortello (alternative)

Blend of artello, from Latin articulus, and a Celtic substrate term. Compare French orteil.


noelo

noelos (plural)
noielo (alternative)
nouguelo (alternative)
novelo (alternative)
nuelo (alternative)

nó + -elo ("little knot"). Compare Spanish nudillo (“knuckle”).


grea

From Old Galician-Portuguese gree, grey, from Latin grex. Doublet of grei.
Cognate with Portuguese grei and Spanish grey.


leitón

From Old Galician-Portuguese leiton (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from leite (“milk”) + -ón. Cognate with Portuguese leitão and Spanish lechón.

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

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

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


podón

podóns (plural)
podom (alternative)
podão (alternative)

From poda (“pruning”) + -ón. Compare Portuguese podão and Spanish podón.


cádavo

Probably from a substrate language. Compare Portuguese cadava, cádava.

dry or partially burnt twig used as firewood


cotarelo

From cótaro + -elo, from a substrate language; compare coto.


esbedro

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

Arbutus unedo
Arbutus unedo#Translingual

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


freixó

freixós (plural)
freijó (alternative)
cereixolo (alternative)
feixó (alternative)
fereixó (alternative)

From Old Galician-Portuguese feijoo (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), probably from *frigiolo (compare frixir (“to fry”)). Cognate with Asturian frixuelu.

(cooking) a traditional and popular Shrovetide treat prepared with eggs, flour, and either milk or broth, cooked over a frying pan greased with pork fat, or over a flat hot stone; similar to a crepe


freixó

Conopodium majus
Wikispecies:Conopodium majus


titor

gl-noun

titor m (plural titores, feminine titora, feminine plural titoras)

titores (plural)
titora (feminine)
titoras (feminine plural)

Attested since the 14th century. From Old Galician-Portuguese tutor, from Latin tutor. Cognate with Portuguese and Spanish tutor.

1409, J. García Oro (ed.), "Viveiro en los siglos XIV y XV. La Colección Diplomática de Santo Domingo de Viveiro", in Estudios Mindonienses, 3, page 102

if you die when the one who has to have this legacy is not fifteen years old yet, then you could name a tutor who raises and teaches him on these rents until the heir is fifteen years old

morrendo vos en tempo que aquel que ouver de aver a dita herença non aja quinse annos, que posades leyxar titor que o crie e ensigne pera las novidades ata que o herdeiro ouver quinse annos


habelencia

habelencias (plural)
habilencia (alternative)

Alí o mozo entr'os ancianos d'enfurruxada esperencia descubriu máis habilencia que político ningún

1851, José García Mosquera, Poesías, page 74:

There the young man, among the elders of rusted experience, found more skill that any politician


celme

Jesus! Peruchiño, que conto tan cheo, de cousas sen zelme e mais d'arrodeos!

1746, Martín Sarmiento, Coloquio de 24 Gallegos rústicos:

Jesus! Peruchiño: what a tale, so full of substanceless things and detours!


podredume

From Old Galician-Portuguese podredũe (15th century), from Medieval Latin putretudine: synchronically podre (“rotten”) + -dume. Cognate with Portuguese podridão and Spanish podredumbre.


podrén

Attested since the 15th century (podreen). From podre (“rotten”) + -én.

talen aa huña de fora ataa a danadura do crauo que lixo nen podreen nenhũa non posa ficar na chaga por nenhũa gisa

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

they shall cut the hoof until the nail injury, so that no dirt or rottenness remain in the wound under no circumstance


pergameo

pergameos (plural)
pergamiño (alternative)

From Old Galician-Portuguese purgamẽo (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Late Latin pergaminum, from pergamīna, from Ancient Greek Περγαμηνός (Pergamēnós, “of Pergamun”), which is named for the Ancient city of Pergamon (modern Bergama) in Asia Minor, where it was invented as an expensive alternative for papyrus. Cognate with Portuguese pergaminho, Spanish pergamino, English parchment.

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porque esto seia çerto et non venna en dulta dey ende ao dito Gonçalo Lopez, prior do dito moesteiro, esta sentença escripta en pergameo de coiro sẽẽlada con meu sẽẽlo de çera pendente, en que escriuy meu nome.

1352, 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 98:

for this to be certain and does not come into doubt, so I give Gonzalo López, prior of the mentioned monastery, this sentence written in a leather parchment sealed with my hanging wax seal, in which I wrote my name

Cantigas de Santa Maria
Codex Calixtinus


pergamiño

pergamiños (plural)
pergameo (alternative)


pedra de gran

/ˈpɛðɾa ðe ˈɣɾaŋ/

pedra (“stone”) de (“of”) gran (“grain”).

mandamos que o dicto Martin Bezerra et sua moller çarren de pedra de grao a porta grande de bayxo que agora esta feyta en a dicta casa noua contra a mota et casa uella en maneyra que seia tan firme a çarradura que asy fezeren a a dicta porta conmo a outra parede da dicta casa

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

we order the mentioned Martín Becerra and his wife to close with granite stone the main gate which is now made in this new house, by the motte and the old house, so that the closing of that gate is as strong as the other walls of the aforementioned house


lousado

lousados (plural)
loixado (alternative)
louxado (alternative)
louxao (alternative)

From lousa (“slab, flagstone”), lousar (“to tile”). Compare Spanish enlosado.


heree

Attested till the 16th century. From Latin heres (“heir”).

Jten faço por mjña heree vnjversal en todos meus bẽes móueles e rraýzes a mjña filla Catalyna, que ey da dita mjña moller Costança Peres

1407, A. Fernández Salgado, editor, A documentación medieval de San Bieito do Campo, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, page 55:

Item, I make my universal heir, in all of my goods, real and personal, my daughter Catalina, who I have of my wife Constanza Pérez


caixón

caixóns (plural)
queixón (alternative)
caixom (alternative)
caixão (alternative)

drawer, box (compartment of an item of furniture)

unit of measure, used for weighting fish, equivalent to 50 kg


gabeta

From Old Occitan gaveda, from Latin gabata. Doublet of gabido. Compare also Portuguese gaveta.


cadaleito

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Vulgar Latin *catalectus, a blend of catasta and lectus. Cognate with Spanish cadalecho and Italian cataletto and French châlit.

(dated) bier, kind of stretcher used for moving and holding a corpse


tromentelo

tromentelos (plural)
tomentelo (alternative)
tormentelo (alternative)


tomentelo

tomentelos (plural)
tromentelo (alternative)
tormentelo (alternative)


groria

From Old Galician-Portuguese gloria, from Latin gloria, from Old Latin *gnōria, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃- (“to know, recognize”) or *ǵnoh₃ris (“knowledge”).


herba punteira

gl-noun

herba punteira f (plural herbas punteiras)


herba tioira

herbas tioiras (plural)
herba tioura (alternative)

Sempervivum tectorum
Sempervivum tectorum#Translingual


malataría

malatarías (plural)
malatería (alternative)

Attested since the 12th century. From malato (“leper”) + -aría.

eu, biſpo don Martin de Lugo da una parte, τ os malateſ do burgo de Sam Pedro de Portomarim da outra parte, por nome Pedro ó malate, con tódolos outroſ deſſa malatarya que ſun τ que am de uij́r

1267, M. Sponer (ed.), "Documentos antiguos de Galicia", in Anuari de l'Oficina Románica de Lingüística i Literatura (Barcelona), 7, pp. 113-192

I, bishop Don Martín of Lugo, from one side; and the lepers of the burg of Saint Peter of Portomarín, on the other side, namely Peter the leper, with all the rest of this leprosarium, the ones that there are now and they who will come


beberaxe

beberaxes (plural)
brebaxe (alternative)

From Old French bevrage (“beverage”). Compare Spanish brebaje.

Este puñou de guarir a don Éytor, et lauoulle ben as chagas, et alinpoullas moy ben, et deulle logo hũ beueragẽ per que logo foy gorido.

1370, R. Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana. Introducción e texto, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 363:

This one fought for protecting Hector, and he washed his wounds, and cleaned them very neatly, and them he give him a potion that made him healthy


malladura

Attested since circa 1300. From mallar (“to thresh”) + -dura.


trevo acedo

/ˈtɾeβo̝ aˈθeðo̝/

Oxalis acetosella
Oxalis acetosella#Translingual


lorcho

/ˈlɔɾ.t͡ʃo̝/

wolffish (marine fish of the family Anarhichadidae)


teaz

teaces (plural)
talaz (alternative)
teaza (alternative)
tez (alternative)
tiez (alternative)

Unknown. Probably related to Asturian tiez, and also perhaps to Spanish and Portuguese tez (both connected to Latin aptus (“robust, healthy, appropriate”)), but the etymology proposed for Coromines can't explain the Galician forms.

cog

membrane, peel, especially one found inside a body, nut, egg


tieira

tieiras (plural)
teira (alternative)
tioira (alternative)
tioura (alternative)

From Late Latin *telaria, from Latin telum (“dart”). Cognate with Spanish telera.


teiroa

teiroas (plural)
ateiró (alternative)
teiró (alternative)
teiroá (alternative)
teiroga (alternative)
teirol (alternative)
teirúa (alternative)
teiruga (alternative)
tiroa (alternative)

From Late Latin *telariola, from Latin telum (“dart”). Cognate with Portuguese teiró.


godallo

Attested since circa 1750. Probably from a Paleo-Hispanic, as Spanish igüedo and Basque aketo, both meaning "billy goat".


almucela

almucelas (plural)
almocela (alternative)

From Old Galician-Portuguese almocela (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria).


pimpín real

Fringilla montifringilla
Fringilla montifringilla#Translingual

brambling, the bird Fringilla montifringilla


cerviña

From lingua cerviña (“deer's tongue”), from Latin cervīna (“of deer”).

Asplenium scolopendrium
Asplenium scolopendrium#Translingual


pulpillo

pulpillos (plural)
porpullo (alternative)

From pulpa (“pulp”) + -illo. Compare Spanish pulpejo.


comborza

From Old Galician-Portuguese combooça (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), probably from a Celtic substrate language. Cognate with Spanish combleza.

Et, sen falla, nõ forõ estas as primeyras cõbooças que se mal quiserõ, nẽ serã as postremeyras.

1370, R. Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 732:

And, off course, they were not the first love rivals to detest each other, nor they will be the last ones

(archaic) love rival, any of two women who share or rival for a lover


bexato

bexatos (plural)
bixato (alternative)
buxato (alternative)

Perhaps a derivative of Latin būteō (“buzzard”), otherwise perhaps from ave (“bird”) + xato (“calf”). Compare abetouro.


rabuxa

rabuxas (plural)
rabuja (alternative)
rebinxe (alternative)
rebixa (alternative)
rebixe (alternative)

From Latin rōbīgīnem (“mildew, rust”), attracted, because of folk etymology, to rabo (“tail”). Cognate with Portuguese rabugem.

cat sickness or murrain which supposedly affected mostly the tail

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 the fatherland's corner


baballa

[baˈβ̞a̠.ɟɐ]

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


bucio

Attested since the 14th century (buzio). Probably related to Old French boisse, ultimately from Proto-Celtic *bostā (“palm of the hand”). Compare English bushel.

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en Heruidij́ns ẽno val de Mij̃ns, quatro cassares et suýan dar de cada cassal seys sesteyros de pã et por cada sesteyro dauã vijnte buzios de pan et soldos çinque leoneses por colleyta et oyto gallinas

1390, Mª Luz Méndez Fernández (ed.), Contribución ó estudio dun libro das Tenzas da Catedral de Santiago. Edición crítica e estudio dos folios 1 a 27. Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, page 51

in Ervedíns, in the valley of Mins, four farms which used to give, each farm, six sixths of grain, each sixth twenty bucios, and five Leonese solidi at the harvest and eight hens

(historical) a dry measure containing six ferrados


bucio

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin būcinum. Cognate with Portuguese búzio.


espiña

espiñas (plural)
espinha (alternative)
espía (alternative)

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese espinha (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin spīna (“thorn”), from spinus (“thorn bush”). Cognate with Portuguese espinha and Spanish espina.

inh+

Conteçe aas uezes que por caiom nas junturas ou nos jeollos ou nos pees ou en outra parte do Cauallo entra espina ou estrepe ou escadeẽa de madeiro et fica ontre a carne en algũa maneira daquella chaga jncha todo arredor, et as uezes toda a coyxa moormente see a espina ou a escadeẽa tange alguun neruo, que faz o Cauallo çopegar.

1409, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Tratado de Albeitaria, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 135:

It sometimes happens, occasionally, that in the joints or the knees or the feet of in another part of the horse enters a thorn or a spike or a splinter, and then it stays in between the meat; and somehow from that wound swells everything which is around, and sometimes all the thigh, mostly when the thorn or splinter touches any nerve, which causes the horse to limp

(figurative) something which causes distress, longing, inquietude


pitelo

Unknown. Either from pito + -elo, or related to French petit.


pitela

Unknown. Either from pito + -ela, or related to French petit.

(games) game similar to pitching pennies where players throw coins at a grounded sliver


escádea

Unknown. Attested since the 15th century, escadeẽa, which points to an earlier form *excatĕna or *skatĕna.

each one of the little bunches that make a bunch of grapes


espiñazo

espiñazos (plural)
espiazo (alternative)

Attested since the 14th century; from espiña + -azo. Cognate with Portuguese espinhaço and Spanish espinazo.

Et poso hũa seeta en seu arquo, et tendeu[o] o mais que podo, et tiroulle et deulle perlos costados, et pasoulos anbos de parte a parte perlo espinaço

1370, R. Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana. Introducción e texto, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 588:

And he put an arrow in his bow, and bent it as much as he could, and shot and hit him on his side, and pierced them both from to side through the backbone


soán

From Old Galician-Portuguese soaão, from Latin solānus (“east wind”). Cognate with Portuguese suão and Asturian solanu.


rubién

rubiéns (plural)
roibén (alternative)
rubén (alternative)
rubián (alternative)

Rubiéns ó mar, vellas a asollar.

Reddish clouds over the sea, old ladies will sunbathe. [In Galicia rain usually comes from the Atlantic ocean, at the west; reddish at the sunset usually means that a centre of high pressure over the Atlantic NE is preventing the rain of reaching Galicia].

(in the plural) reddish clouds at dawn or sunset


bulleiro

bulleiros (plural)
bulheiro (alternative)

quagmire, mire, moor; a place whose soil is naturally saturated in water because of the presence of a source


lamazal

From Old Galician-Portuguese lamaçal, from *lamaza (from lama, "mud") + -al. Compare Portuguese lamaçal.


serrón

serróns (plural)
serrom (alternative)
serrão (alternative)


pentello

From Vulgar Latin *pectinī̆culum, diminutive of Latin pecten (“pubic hair, comb”). Compare Portuguese pentelho and Spanish pendejo.


gamallo

From a substrate language; compare gamón and gameito.

Laurus nobilis
Laurus nobilis#Translingual


frundío

From Latin frons, frondem, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰron-d- (compare Old English brant (“steep”), Latvian bruôds (“roof ridge”), from *bʰren- (“project”).


cachelo

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

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

(in the plural, cooking) cooked potatoes (boiled in broth or water with salt)


souria

sourias (plural)
soira (alternative)
xoula (alternative)

From Old Galician-Portuguese *soura, from Suevic [Term?], from Proto-Germanic *sauzaz (“dry”).


motóa

Ultimately from Proto-Celtic *moltos (“sheep”).


cagalla

a sheep, goat, hare, rat or rabbit dropping

(figurative, derogatory) a small or worthless thing or person


cagallón

cagallóns (plural)
cagalhom (alternative)
cagalhão (alternative)

cagalla (“dropping”) + -ón. Compare Portuguese cagalhão.

(vulgar) a large turd, excrement or dropping: horse shit; pig shit; large human shit

Vou mamado de todo! Vaia cagallón que levo!

"I'm totally sucked! What a big piece of shit I'm carrying!"


cañoto

Probably from Old Spanish, from Latin canna (“cane, reed”).


azorrego

Obscure; perhaps from Arabic, or either from Mozarabic, from Vulgar Latin *excorrigiata. Cognate with Portuguese azorrague, Catalan xurriaques, and Spanish zurriaga.

unk

Obscure

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

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

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

(dated) whip used to goad or direct animals


trabanco

trabancos (plural)
trabanca (alternative)

(dated) stall (bench or table on which small articles of merchandise are exposed for sale)


conda

From Latin computa. Doublet of conta and cómputo. Cognate with Spanish cuenda.

Si quixeras ben podías darme a conda con segredo da madeixa enmarañada que tén deste mundo os feitos e polo fío tirando pouquiño a pouco direito, irían vindo cal peixes que recolle o mariñeiro.

If you would, you could well give me secretly the extreme of the thread of the entangled skein which holds the facts of this world and, pulling the thread little by little, right away these would come, as the fish that the mariner picks

Deica fins de 1931, en que se funda o Partido Galeguista, o nacionalismo galego era, non obstante, unha mea sen conda, tributo do fracaso na unificación do movemento

1984, Ramón Villares, A Historia, Vigo: Galaxia, page 214:

Till the end of 1931, when the Galicianist Party is founded, the Galician nationalism was, notwithstanding, a skein without a bind, a tax due to the failure of the unification of the movement

cord used to tie a skein, or either extreme of the thread


couzón

upper and lower hinges or pivots of a door

carving practised in the threshold and lintel of a doorway, for inserting the aforementioned hinges or pivots


couzoeira

couzoeiras (plural)
couceira (alternative)


vaíña

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese bainha, from Latin vāgīna (“sheath”). Compare Portuguese bainha, Spanish vaina, Catalan beina, also French gaine, Italian guaina. Doublet of vaxa and vaxina, borrowings from the same source.

inh+

Sissa das beynas d'espadas. Iten, ordenaron que qual quer persona de fora parte que trouxer veynas despadas a vender aa dita çibdade, que page de cada duzia III brancas.

1439, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 422:

Assize of the sword scabbards. Item, they ordered that any person from the outside that brings sword scabbards for selling to this city, that they shall pay of each dozen 3 white coins


moneca

gl-noun

moneca f (plural monecas, masculine moneco, masculine plural monecos)

monecas (plural)
moneco (masculine)
monecos (masculine plural)
boneca (alternative)
monecra (alternative)

Ultimately from a substrate language, from *bonnĭcca, perhaps from *bodinĭcca, from Proto-Celtic *bodinā (“heap, bollard”). Compare French borne.


xente bafúa

From Old Galician-Portuguese gente befua, used by the Galician author Airas Nunes; from xente (“people”) and bafúa (“smelly; miserable, despicable”).

tanpouco deixan entrar as Autoridàs á oir Misa na Capilla mayore e solo lle poñen os bancos xûnto as reixâs, como si fora xênte bafúa

1820, anonymous author, Tertulia na Quintana:

they would neither allow the [civil] authorities to hear mass at the main chapel, and they just put some benches by the gates, as if they were low people

qu'é moitiña honra dinidá e fachenda poder un homiño ben erguida'a testa decir en bo torgo: Miña terra é esta. Só por unha chisca d'homildade fea que non vén ó caso porque x'é baixeza de xente bafúa e gafa ralea indina de entr'homes ergué-la cabeza algús galleguiños d'almiña pequena cativa, mingoada, coa boca aberta ó tempo que scoitan cen linguas alleas e danlle mil laudes sin valer corenta enzarran a súa no fondo da terra pensando que dina non é como aquelas

because it's large honour, dignity and pride, for a common man, his head high, to say with clear voice: This is my land. Just for a little bit of ugly humbleness —that is beside the point, because it is but lowness typical of despicable people, leprous kind, unfit for rising the head among men— some Galicians having a small, worthless, diminished soul, their mouth open at the same time that they hear a hundred foreign tongues, which they give a thousand praises whilst not worthing forty, they bury their language under the ground thinking that is not as worthy as theirs

(idiomatic, derogatory, dated) miserable people, rabble


bacoriño

bacoriños (plural)
bacorinho (alternative)

Vacoriño en celeyro, no quer cõpañeyro (proverb)

1555, Hernán Núñez, Refranes o provebios en Romance:

The piglet in the granary doesn't want a partner


cercelo

From Latin circellus. Cognate with Spanish zarcillo.

mando aa mina sobrina, filla de Ruy Conde, que mora con Constansa Eanes, hunos çerçelos de coraes et a bolsa que se con elles et huna baraça.

1403, M. M. Graña Cid, editor, Las órdenes mendicantes en el obispado de Mondoñedo. El convento de san Martín de Villaoriente (1374-1500): Estudios Mindonienses, page 237:

I bequeath my niece, daughter of Roi Conde, who lives with Constanza Eanes, some coral earrings and the bag that is together with them, and a sash


barazal

communal lands, jointly possessed and exploited by the neighbors of a parish


viravolta

From French virevolte, which is attested since the 16th century.


buxardo

From Old French busard, ultimately from Latin buteo.


buzaco

A derivative of Latin būteō (“buzzard”) + -aco.


choqueiro

choqueiro m (plural choqueiros, feminine choqueira, feminine plural choqueiras)

choqueiros (plural)
choqueira (feminine)
choqueiras (feminine plural)

/t͡ʃɔˈkejɾʊ/

mask, disguised person during the entroido feast


choqueiro

/t͡ʃɔˈkejɾʊ/

(humorous) a person from Redondela, literally "cuttlefish [fish]er"


choqueiro

/t͡ʃɔˈkejɾʊ/

(geography) a soaked terrain, or a terrain with heavy soil


martabela

Attested since the 16th century. From Vulgar Latin *vertibellum (“object which turns”), from Latin vertebra. Cognate with French verveux.

inh

rattle, noisemaker, whirligig for scaring birds

latch of a window or box, usually consisting of a turning piece

Pachygrapsus marmoratus
Pachygrapsus marmoratus#Translingual


arrós

Borrowed from Andalusian Arabic الرَّوْز (ar-rawz), from Arabic أَرُزّ (ʔaruzz, “rice”), from Ancient Greek ὄρυζα (óruza, “rice”), of Iranian origin.

(uncountable) rice (Oryza sativa, a cereal)

(uncountable) rice (the seeds of this cereal)


lecer

From Old Galician-Portuguese lezer (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), probably borrowed from Old French leisir given its exclusive use as a noun, from Latin licēre, infinitive of licet. Compare Portuguese lazer and English leisure.

Máis tardíamente, e non sempre con moito ánimo, o lecer vaise vendo como un tempo necesario para que o proletariado recupere as forzas físicas e psíquicas para manter a súa función no sistema.

2005, José Manuel Santos Solla, Galicia en cartel, Univ Santiago de Compostela, →ISBN, page 14:

Later, and not always with great spirit, leisure is seen progressively as a time needed for the proletariat to recover the physical and phycological strength to carry on with their mission in the system

spare time, leisure; opportunity, occasion


cociñeiro

gl-noun

cociñeiro m (plural cociñeiros, feminine cociñeira, feminine plural cociñeiras)

cociñeiros (plural)
cociñeira (feminine)
cociñeiras (feminine plural)

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *coquīnārium, or a later formation corresponding to cociña + -eiro.

inh+

cook (a person who is fond of or has a knack for cooking or who has it as a profession)


vencello

vencellos (plural)
brencello (alternative)
mencello (alternative)
moncello (alternative)

From Old Galician-Portuguese vencello (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), derived from Latin vinculum (“tie, bond”), from vinciō (“bind, fetter, tie”) + -ulum. Cognate with Portuguese vencelho.

bind made of straw or reeds and used for tying bundles and sheaves

Aínda que naceu fóra, ten un forte vencello con este país.

Even though she was born afar, she has a strong bond with this country.


caravilla

caravillas (plural)
cavilla (alternative)
cravilla (alternative)

From Old Galician-Portuguese cravilla (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), a semi-learned term derived from Latin clavicula (“little key”). Doublet of chavella and clavícula. Compare Portuguese cravelha and Spanish clavija.

Fun ó muiño d'abaixo, e volvín polo d'arriba; o d'abaixo ten ferrollo, o d'arriba caravilla.

I went to the watermill below, I came back by the one above; the one below has a bolt, and the one above a latch.

outros contaban que Beja
lle apretara as carabillas.
Esto ben podrà ser certo,
p[o]rq[u]e cando este Señor
lle berraba, el tembraba,
é aposto eu que tiña
ó ollo do cu tan cerrado,
que era imposible coupese
un grau de millo p[o]r el;

1807, anonymous author, Primeiro diálogo dos esterqueiros:

others told that Beja
had tightened his pegs.
This is probably true,
because when this lord
was shouting him, he was trembling
and I bet that
his asshole was so tight
that it was not possible that
a corn grain entered in it

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

one of several pegs which fasten the wheels to the axe in a traditional Galician cart

destes por nove cravillas para as traves viinte moravedis

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

You gave, for nine pegs for the beans, twenty maravedis


entrouxo

entrouxos (plural)
entrouso (alternative)

Perhaps from Latin introrsum (“inwards”).

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


mosqueira

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin muscaria (“related to flies; fibrous, hairy parts of plants”).

inh

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

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

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

cupboard protected by a mosquito net, for storing food at room temperature but preserved from flies and bugs


mosqueira

Related to amosegar (“to gnaw”) + -eira.


hortelá

hortelás (plural)
hortelán (alternative)

From Old Galician-Portuguese hortelãa, from Latin hortulana, feminine of hortulanus (“gardener”). Cognate with Portuguese hortelã.


hortelán

gl-noun

hortelán m (plural horteláns, feminine hortelá, feminine plural hortelás)

horteláns (plural)
hortelá (feminine)
hortelás (feminine plural)
hortelao (alternative)

From Old Galician-Portuguese hortelão, from hortulanus (“gardener”). Cognate with Portuguese hortelão.


cagalleta

a sheep, goat, hare, rat or rabbit dropping


facenda

From Old Galician-Portuguese fazenda, from Latin faciendus. Cognate with Portuguese fazenda and Spanish hacienda.

cata ben tua fazẽda, de tal maneyra que todos digã que de bon padre que seýo bon fillo

1370, R. Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 297:

take good care of your fortune, so that everyone says that of a good father came a good son

A fazenda do crego, da a Deus, e leua a o demo

1555, Hernán Núñez, Refranes o proverbios en romance:

The priest's wealth: God gives it, Devil takes it away

(formal) possessions, wealth, fortune, heirloom

A facenda no monte vai pastando

1853, Xoán Manuel Pintos, A Gaita Gallega, page 4:

cattle and animals belonging to a house, family or neighbour


fesga

From local Vulgar Latin *fessica, from fessus (“cloven, cleft”).

Apañaba percebes nunha fesga, Chuco de Carracedo, cando un golpe de mar, ¡como unha pouta!, galgante, silandeiro, baticouno nas pedras arneiradas, talmente que, a on moneco

1953, Antón Zapata Garcia, A roseira da soidade, A Coruña: Roel:

He, Chuco de Carracedo, was picking gooseneck barnacles in a crack' when a sea blow, as a paw!, jumping up, stealthy, threw him against the barked rocks, as if he was a rag doll


engra

engras (plural)
engre (alternative)
incle (alternative)
incre (alternative)
ingre (alternative)

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

anvil, especially a portable anvil used to sharpen scythes


engrés

engrés m (plural engreses, feminine engresa, feminine plural engresas)

engreses (plural)
engresa (feminine)
engresas (feminine plural)
ingrés (alternative)
engrês (alternative)

From Old French engleis, from Old English Englisc.

Iten, Aluaro Gomes, morador en Tamageelos, diso e respondeo aa dita carta descomoyón que o dito término que ya por los ditos padroós de Boyroaá, et que suyan de seer dous padroós dereitos et ten hun deles hua crus et o outro, que jas en terra, soya destar dereito, et de aqueles marcos que se ya dereito o dito término ao padrón da Veyga, et de aly vayse dereito ao monte do Ladaayro, á outro marco que está eno dito monte en hua peneda que tem hua crus, et de aly vayse aos marcos de Quiçaás, et desto que se acordaua des os engreses

1451, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 131:

Item, Álvaro Gómez, who lives in Tamaguelos, said and answered this excommunication letter that the limit went by these standing stones of Boiroá, which used to be two standing stones, and one of them has a cross, and the other, which now lies on the ground, used to be standing; and from these landmarks the limit went straight to the standing stone of Veiga, and from there it went straight to the hill of Ladairo, to another landmark which is in that hill, in an outcrop which has a cross, and from there it goes to the landmarks of Quizás; and that he remembered this from the time of the Englishmen [the army of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster and pretender to the crown of Castille, which was in Galicia in 1386-7]


fruxe

Attested since the 15th century (fruge). Either inherited or borrowed from Latin frux (“fruit, produce”).

Et avedesla de lavrar e provar de pees de bona fruge

1422, J. García Oro, editor, Viveiro en los siglos XIV y XV. La Colección Diplomática de Santo Domingo de Viveiro, Estudios Mindonienses, 3, page 82:

and you should work it and populate it with vines of good lineage

Co ò desexo de acordarvos, que en Galicia ò seu funduxe ten à vosa nobre fruxe, vou en Gallego a falarvos: De esto non hay que estrañarvos; antes ben, facendo gala de esta nacion, estimála, è si porque moito dista, non à conocès de vista, conocedéa pola fala

1779, Diego Antonio Cernadas y Castro, Obras en prosa y verso:

With the desire to remind you that in Galicia has its origin your noble lineage, I'm going to speak in Galician to you: you must not be surprised; rather, showing off this nation, you should love it, and if because of the distance you are not acquainted, then meet it in the speech


padriño

padriño m (plural padriños, feminine madrinha, feminine plural madrinhas)

padriños (plural)
madrinha (feminine)
madrinhas (feminine plural)
padrín (alternative)

From Old Galician-Portuguese padrỹo (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Early Medieval Latin patrīnus (“godfather”), from Latin pater (“father”), from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr (“father”). Compare Portuguese padrinho, Spanish padrino.


nécora

nécoras (plural)
anécora (alternative)
nácora (alternative)
nacra (alternative)
necra (alternative)
nocra (alternative)

Unknown. Perhaps from Arabic, but most likely from a substrate language, as many fish and crustaceans names. Potential Latin roots include necō, necāre meaning "to kill." Necor is the first-person singular present passive indicative of necō "I am killed, I am murdered"
(figuratively) "I am thwarted, I am checked."


cánaba

cánabas (plural)
cánama (alternative)
cániva (alternative)

Unknown. Perhaps from Latin cannaba. Cognate with Spanish cáñama.

pagando outrosí cada hun a sua canama que lle fose reparada dos ditos viinte mill mrs

1385, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 245:

paying also each one his contribution as it was assigned of the mentioned twenty thousand maravedis


vieiro

From Latin viārius (“related to roads”).


laio

Deverbal from laiar (“to complain, mourn”).


cenceno

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin cincinnus (“lock of hair”).

E d’os castaños esgazando as pòlas;
Abranguía aromáticos cencenos.

1845, Francisco Añón, Recordos da infancia:

And from the chestnut trees, tearing of the branches,
she picked aromatic tassels.

tassel (inflorescence of maize or of the chestnut tree)


liorna

Attested since the 18th century. Perhaps from Latin Liburnus (“Liborna”).

Non me veñas Xacinto con liornas / A que eu non lle dou creto, / Que esa labia éche o abouxo das bigornas

1858, Juan Manuel Pintos, Xacinto e Catriña:

Don't come to me with palavers, Xacinto, which I don't give credit; because this glibness of yours is the din of the anvils


xendra

[ˈʃen̪.d̪ɾɐ]

Attested since circa 1539 (gendra). Probably from Latin genera. Compare English engender.


cirigaita

cirigaitas (plural)
xirigaita (alternative)

From Old French eschirgaite (“patrol; skirmish”), from Frankish *skarawahta, from *skara (“troop”) (from Proto-Germanic *skarō (“portion, share”)) + *wahta (“watch, guard”). Doublet of zaragata. Cognate with German Scharwache.

der

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

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

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


liñaxe

From Old Galician-Portuguese linhage (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Old French lignage. Cognate with Portuguese linhagem and Spanish linaje.

1345, A. Fernández Salgado (ed.), A documentación medieval de San Bieito do Campo. Tese de licenciatura (inédita) presentada na Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, page 22

I order that these properties are left to my closest blood relative, belonging to the straight line from the lineage of my father and mine

mando que fiquen estes herdamentos ao meu parente máys chegado de sangre que veña en liña dereita que ueña de linagẽe de meu padre e meu


azouta

From Old Galician-Portuguese açoute (“lash”) (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Andalusian Arabic, from Arabic ال (al-) + سَوْط (sawṭ, “whip, cane”). Cognate with Portuguese açoute and Spanish azote.


xibardo

xibardos (plural)
chibardo (alternative)
chibarto (alternative)
xibarro (alternative)
xibarto (alternative)

Probably from French gibard (compare Middle French gibbar (“humpback whale”)), ultimately from Latin gibber (“hunchbacked”). Compare Spanish yubarta.

Megaptera novaeangliae
Megaptera novaeangliae#Translingual


caramecha

noun applied to small winkles, whelks and sea snails


centulo

Unknown. Perhaps from the personal name, attested in Roman inscriptions, Cintullus, from Proto-Celtic *Kentullos, from *kentus (“first”).

(historical) masked demon-like figure who used to precede some Catholic processions


esterlín

From Old Galician-Portuguese esterlin (“sterling”) (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Middle English sterling.

inh

Jtem paga Afonso Garçía et súa moller Jnés Garçía, tres onças et XVJ sterlij̃s et medio de prata et hũu coroado

1390, M. L. Méndez Fernández (ed.), Contribución ó estudio dun libro das Tenzas da Catedral de Santiago. Edición crítica e estudio dos folios 1 a 27. Memoria de licenciatura (inédita) presentada na Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, page 33

Item, Afonso García and his wife Inés Garcia pay three ounces and 16 silver sterlings and a half and a crown

(numismatics, historical, archaic) sterling (British coinage)


peideiro

gl-noun

peideiro m (plural peideiros, feminine peideira, feminine plural peideiras)

peideiros (plural)
peideira (feminine)
peideiras (feminine plural)

From Old Galician-Portuguese peideiro, from peido (“fart”) + -eiro.


furgalla

furgallas (plural)
furgalha (alternative)

From furgoneta, changing its suffix to -alla.


abrente

[aˈβ̞ɾen̪.t̪ɪ]

[aˈβ̞ɾɛn̪.t̪ɪ]

From the old present participle of the verb abrir, corresponding to Latin aperiēns, aperientem.


finamento

Attested since the 13th century. From finar (“to end, die”) + -mento.

Et diso mays, que aquel moesteyro de Pedrosso que o fundóu et fez a Condessa donna Monia Froas et que o herdóu de seu herdamento et, despoys de seu finamento, que ficóu senpre en benfeyturía dos Condes do seu linagen

1312, E. Cal Pardo, editor, Monasterio de San Salvador de Pedroso en tierras de Trasancos, A Coruña: Deputación Provincial, page 251:

And he said more, that that monastery of Pedroso was made and founded by countess Dona Monia Froiz -and that he inherited it in his heirloom- and that after her decease it stayed always in the benefits of the counts of her lineage


pasamento

Attested since the 13th century. From pasar (“to pass”) + -mento.

Et depoys de uossa morte fique este casar sobredito a uosso fillo Lourenço et a una persona que uos nomeardes a uosso passamento

1281, 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 76:

And after your death, this said farmhouse will be left to your son Lourenzo and to a person that you'll appoint at the moment of your decease


borreiro

borreiro m (plural borreiros, feminine borreira, feminine plural borreiras)

borreiros (plural)
borreira (feminine)
borreiras (feminine plural)

From borra (“grounds”) + -eiro; wax is usually a subproduct of the production of honey.


viño branco

viños brancos (plural)
vinho branco (alternative)

mando ao dito moesteyro de san francisco huun Tonel de viño branco de Ribadauea

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

I bequeath to said monastery of Saint Francis a barrel of white wine of Ribadavia


larada

hearthful, the quantity of firewood that is needed to light a normal fire in the hearth

fire, especially the one lit on the hearth

firewood, chestnuts, potatoes deposited over the ground


cadullo

cadullos (plural)
cabadullo (alternative)
cadabullo (alternative)
cadrullo (alternative)
coudullo (alternative)

Unknown. Perhaps from cavadullo, from cavar (“to dig, hoe”).

furrows made in the extremes of a farm plot, transversally to the other furrows


cebrisca

cebriscas (plural)
ceverisca (alternative)
feberisca (alternative)

Blend from a descendant of Latin zephyrus + nevisca (“blizzard”).


mercadoría

mercadorías (plural)
mercaduría (alternative)

Attested since the 14th century. From mercadura. Compare Portuguese mercadoria and Spanish mercadería.

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 et do dito dia que a dita barcha arribar a cada hũa das ditas villas aa sua de descarga ata XXI dias a dita barcha deve de seer descargada da dita mercadoria

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 harbor 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 and from the day that said ship arrives to each one of these towns until it is unloaded, at most in twenty-one days said ship must be unloaded of said ware.


ucheira

ucheiras (plural)
oucheira (alternative)

Attested since 1234 (uscheria). From Old Galician-Portuguese, either from Latin ostiārius, from ostium (“door”), or from ustulāria from ustulō (“I scorch”).

(usually in the plural, architecture) jamb, especially of an oven

(by extension, in the plural) stones that conform the oven


canafrecha

canafrechas (plural)
canifrecha (alternative)

Perhaps from Latin canna fistula. Cognate with Spanish cañaheja.

Conium maculatum
Conium maculatum#Translingual

Ferula communis
Ferula communis#Translingual


augardente

augardentes (plural)
aguardente (alternative)

Compound of auga (“water”) + ardente (“burning”).

com+

aguardiente, a brandy or distillate obtained from grape pomace


arañeira

From araña + -eira. Cognate with Portuguese aranheira.


carroucha

Unknown. Probably from a substrate language.

Calluna vulgaris
Calluna vulgaris#Translingual

vulgar name of a number of seaweeds, among them:

Halidrys siliquosa
Wikispecies:Halidrys siliquosa

Fucus serratus
Fucus serratus#Translingual


caruncho

carunchos (plural)
carbuncho (alternative)

Semi-learned borrowing from Latin carbunculus. Doublet of carbúnculo and carbunco.

slbor

ergot, especially that which affects wheat, barley, oats and maize

stain or decay caused by dampness in a fabric


maquía

Borrowed from Andalusian Arabic مَكِيلَة (makíla), from Arabic مَكِيلَة (makīla). Compare Spanish maquila.

Non fíes en maquía de muiñeiro, nin creas en comida de despenseiro.

Don't trust the share of the miller nor the food of the storekeeper.

(historical) the share of flour a miller would receive as payment

(historical) period of time that the co-owner of a mill has for using it


segorella

segorellas (plural)
seborella (alternative)
segurella (alternative)
seorella (alternative)
sinorella (alternative)
soborella (alternative)
soborrella (alternative)
sobrerrella (alternative)

Perhaps a diminutive, from segur + -ella, or ultimately from Latin *securicula, from secūris.

rind (an iron support fitting used on the upper millstone of a grist mill)


segorella

From Latin satureia. Cognate with Portuguese segorelha.


ciringallo

ciringallos (plural)
farangallo (alternative)
zarangallo (alternative)

/θiɾiŋˈɡaʎo̝/


bandallo

bandallos (plural)
bandalho (alternative)

Unknown. Perhaps from banda + -allo; compare Portuguese bandalho. Or either related to Spanish andrajo.

(derogatory) rascal; idleton; a despicable or untidy person

Xâ sabes que â miña casa
he moi levada o bandallo
da tia Goras de Rabál,
aquela gran zalameira,
embolvedora è embusteira,
que vive por noso mal:

1812, Antonio Benito Fandiño, A Casamenteira:

You know that my house
has become quite a calamity
because of uncle Goras of Rabal,
that great sweat talker,
scheming and liar
that lives to cause us harm

Máis que digan que este mundo
Foi e será un bandallo,
Decote detras da porta
Non hemos de ver o trasno;

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

No matter how much they say that this world
was and is a calamity,
Not always are we to see
the demon behind the door


cenzo

If cognate with Portuguese sesso (“buttocks”) and Spanish sieso (“anus, rectum”), then from Latin sessus.


zarangallo

/θaɾaŋˈɡaʎo̝/


marrán

gl-noun

marrán m (plural marráns, feminine marrá, feminine plural marrás)

marráns (plural)
marrá (feminine)
marrás (feminine plural)
marrao (alternative)

Attested since the 13th century. From Andalusian Arabic [Term?], from Arabic مُحَرَّم (muḥarram, “forbidden”) as referring to pigs. Compare Spanish marrano.

vna galina τ vn cabrito τ vna marráá

1308, 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 84


sangaño

Unknown. Attested since the 12th century in local Medieval Latin texts (sanganio).

daquel pam que ouuer na herdade limpo de palla et de munna, et por huna fanega de castanas uerdes, et foros dous sanganos, quatro galinas cada anno

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 dust; and for a bushel of chestnuts; and as rent two sangaños, four hens each year


cerello

From old Galician and Old Galician-Portuguese zarello (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), perhaps from a diminutive of Latin lacer.


azarella

From old Galician and Old Galician-Portuguese zarello (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), perhaps from a diminutive of Latin lacer. Compare modern Galician cerello (“tatter”).

Iten, preçaron duas toallas e hua azarella e hua sauaa e dous cadillos e hun saquo e hua manta vella e hua azarella em oytenta maravedis

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

Item, the apprised two towels and an azarella and a shit and two cadillos and a sack and an old blanket and a azarella in eighty maravedis

(historical) a certain quality or item of cloth


cadillo

Unclear. Attested since the 15th century; perhaps from Latin *catenicullum, diminutive of catēna (“chain”).

unk

Unclear

(in the plural, weaving) group of twelve or twenty-four threads that are warped

Item, the apprised two towels and an azarella and a shit and two skeins and a sack and an old blanket and a azarella in eighty maravedis


sabelo

From Latin sabanellum, diminutive from sabanum.


sabenla

sabenlas (plural)
sabela (alternative)
sabella (alternative)
sabenlla (alternative)

Perhaps from a diminutive *sabelella from *sabŏlos, from Proto-Celtic *samos (“summer”) (compare sable, zamborca).

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

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

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


guillo

Unknown. Perhaps a back-formation from aguillar or from guillame.

each one of the several iron wedges used by stonemasons to fracture a rock


casqueiro

lower quality board obtained from sapwood and retaining the outer bark

(nautical) board used as a fender in fishing boats


sangomiño

sangomiños (plural)
sangobín (alternative)
sangubiño (alternative)

From sango(n)ino, from Latin sanguis (“blood”).

Cornus sanguinea
Cornus sanguinea#Translingual


lella

lellas (plural)
lenlla (alternative)
lelha (alternative)

Probably from Latin lanicula, diminutive of lana (“wool”).


lello

From lella, probably from Latin lanicula, diminutive of lana (“wool”).


eirado

From Old Galician-Portuguese eirado (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from eira (“threshing floor”) + -ado.

grain extended over the threshing floor in preparation for threshing

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

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

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


cerollo

cerollos (plural)
cerullo (alternative)
zorollo (alternative)

From Medieval Latin ceruleum (“plum”). Compare Spanish ciruela.


perduga

From Latin perdicula, diminutive form of Latin perdīx, perdīcem (“partridge”), from Ancient Greek πέρδιξ (pérdix, “partridge”).


perdís

From Latin perdīx, perdīcem (“partridge”), from Ancient Greek πέρδιξ (pérdix, “partridge”).


tafona

From Old Galician-Portuguese atafona, from Andalusian Arabic الطَاحُونَة (aṭ-ṭāḥūna), from Arabic طَاحُونَة (ṭāḥūna, “mill”). Compare Portuguese atafona and Spanish tahona.

Arabic طَاحُونَة (ṭāḥūna, “mill”)


pirixel

pirixeis (plural)
perexil (alternative)
perixel (alternative)
prixel (alternative)

From Old Galician-Portuguese perrexil, from Old Occitan pere(i)ssil, from Latin petroselinum, from Ancient Greek πετροσέλινον (petrosélinon), from πέτρα (pétra, “stone”) + σέλινον (sélinon, “celery”). Compare Portuguese perrexil and Spanish perejil.

πετροσέλινον

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


perexil

perexís (plural)
perexel (alternative)
perixel (alternative)
pirixel (alternative)
prexel (alternative)
prixel (alternative)

πετροσέλινον


espiñaca

From Arabic إِسْفَانَاخ (ʔisfānāḵ), from Persian اسپناخ (espanâx). Compare Spanish espinaca.

Arabic إِسْفَانَاخ (ʔisfānāḵ)


sobexo

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese sobejo, ultimately a term derived from Latin super. Compare Portuguese sobejo, Old Spanish sobejo, Italian soverchio.

inh+

It. mando que todas las doas que eu ouuer a o tempo de miña morte assy adubos de panos como yrilandas [grilandas] e relicas [pelicas] e cintas e outras qualesquer doas que eu aia e sse pola uentura estouuere delas ou todas en penora mando que sse tiren e sse den a o prior ffrey Johan nunes con todos los panos de uestir que ouver e teuer a tempo de miña morte e el que faça por todo hun calez de prata e hunha boa uestimenta para a dita capela de ssan Jurgio e sse y mays montar o ssobeyo que ficar mando a o dito prior que me faça con el diser misas de Requiem por miña alma

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

Item: I order that every trinket that I have at the time of my death, clothing ornaments as well as garlands, pelts, ribbons, and any other trinket that I may have -and in case that they were pawned I command that they should be redeemed- they should give them to the prior, the friar Johan Nunes, with all of the clothes that I have at the time of my dead; and that he must do, with all of these, a silver chalice and a good vestment for said chapel of Saint George; and if the left surplus is larger, then I order said prior to use it to say requiem masses for my soul


cernella

From Late Latin cerniculum, from cerno (“I separate”). Cognate with Portuguese cernelha and Old Spanish cerneja.

A fremusura do Cauallo deuese conoçer no corpo grande et llongo et que os nenbros rrespondem ao corpo asy como conuen et a cabeça ligeira et conuiniuelmente longa, boca grande et esllauada [esllanada], os nares grandes et jnchados, ollos grosos, non cauados nen escundudos, orellas peqenas et esperilladas, o collo longo et delgado contra a cabeça, queixadas bem ligeiras et ben seqas, na coma pouqos cabellos et chaos, o peito chãao et rredondo, a çernella non aguda mais como tenduda, dereita et ancha

1409, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Tratado de Albeitaria, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 73:

the beauty of the horse must be known in the large and long body, that the limbs must correspond to the body as convenient, and that the head must be light and conveniently long; big and cloven mouth; big and swollen nostrils; big eyes, not hollow or hidden; small and pointy ears; long neck, thin by the head; light and dry mandibles; in the mane, not many hairs, well cut; the breast big and rotund; the withers, not acute, but rather tight, straight and broad

spike, ear that grows to a different height


sedeño

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from seda (“bristle”). Compare Portuguese sedenho, French séton, Old Occitan sedon.

1409,
et demays meter ll'as sedenos sooa garganta ende que os homores aian careira para sair fora porllo mouemento das sedas

even more, you shall insert setons under its throat so that the humors have a way to come out because of the movement of the bristles


baixel

Attested since 14th century; from Old Catalan vaixell, from Latin vascellum. Doublet of vaixela. Compare also Spanish bajel.

nao ou baixel ou outro navio que a esta villa viesen que trouxese sal des huun milleyro e medio de sal arriba que lles desen tres faneigas grandes de sal aos ditos lazerados

1384, M. A. Comesaña Martínez, editor, O tombo do Hospital e Ermida de santa María do Camiño de Pontevedra, Pontevedra: Museo de Pontevedra, page 99:

carrack or vessel or other ship that to this town came bringing salt, from a thousand and a half of salt up, they shall give three large bushels of salt to said lepers


taberneiro

gl-noun

taberneiro m (plural taberneiros, feminine taberneira, feminine plural taberneiras)

taberneiros (plural)
taberneira (feminine)
taberneiras (feminine plural)
tabarneiro (alternative)

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

foran en tomar aos mercadores e tauerneiros d'Arçúa et das Duas Casas viinte e hun roçín d'albardas con senos aparellos

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 357:

they went and took from the merchants and shopkeepers of Arzúa and Dúas Casas twenty-one pack horses with their respective tacks


loitosa

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin lūctuōsa.

et devedes a seer nosso vassalo; et a vosso passamento, dardes a nos V soldos de loytosa

1269, M. Romaní Martínez (ed.), La colección diplomática de Santa María de Oseira (1025-1310). Santiago: Tórculo Edicións, page 919

and you should be our vassal; and at your decease, you'll give us five solidi as loitosa

(law, historical, taxation, feudalism) tax paid by the family or heirs of a deceased person to his or her lord


enfesto

enfestos (plural)
afesto (alternative)
anfesto (alternative)

Either from Latin īnfestus (“hostil”); or from en- + -festo, from Germanic: compare French faîte (“top, summit”) and German First (“ridge”).


marzapán

From Italian marzapane, thought originally to come from Martaban (မုတ္ထမ (muthta.ma.)), a Burmese port known for its spice exports, with influence from Italian pane.


arneiro

Attested since the 18th century. From arna (“bark”) + -eiro.

Semibalanus balanoides
Wikispecies:Semibalanus balanoides


arneste

Attested since the 18th century. Related to arna (“bark”).


fibela

fibelas (plural)
cibela (alternative)
acibela (alternative)

From Old Galician-Portuguese fivela, from Vulgar Latin *fībella, diminutive of fībula. Cognate with Portuguese fivela and Spanish hebilla.

Et ẽna çinta que el tragia a rredor avia oyto palmos sen aquela que se depondoraua de la fiuela a fondo.

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 133:

clasp or buckle at the extreme of a rope


pallabarro

pallabarros (plural)
palhabarro (alternative)


chapacuña

chapacuñas (plural)
tapacuña (alternative)

(construction) stone construction technique in which flat stones are placed vertically, rather than horizontally

(construction) dam constructed with said technique


ferraxe

ferraxes (plural)
ferragem (alternative)

From Old French ferrage. Compare Portuguese ferragem, Spanish herraje, French ferrage.

logo todos ordenaron que persona nenhua, asy ferrador, como ferreiro que fose ousado de vender a ferragee mays que a estes preços que se sige

1447, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 137:

after this, all ordered that no person, either farrier or smith, should dare to sell ironwork except to this prices that follow

the horseshoes of a horse; ironwork; iron garnish, reinforcements or elements of an object


ferraxe

Blend of forraxe + ferraña, both meaning "fodder".


xilbarda

Ruscus aculeatus
Ruscus aculeatus#Translingual


xilbarbeira

xilbarbeiras (plural)
silbarbeira (alternative)
xilbardeira (alternative)

Attested since 1409 (juzbarbeira). Ultimately from Latin Iovis barba (“Iupiter's beard”) + -eira.


toelo

Unknown: from Medieval Latin tuellus, perhaps from Latin tubus (“tube”) or from a term related to tofus (“tuff”). Compare Spanish tobillo.

Aconteçe aynda que a solla da huña que anda soo pee, anda por tanto tenpo desfferrada por llugarres montossos, duros, pedregossos que se escomen et sse ffaz tam ssotil porllo grande vssamento, que naturalmente non pode deffender o tuello de dentro assy como deue.

1409, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Tratado de Albeitaria, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 155:

And it can even happen that the sole of the hoof under the feet goes for much time shoeless through wild, harsh, stony places, so that it is worn out and becomes so subtle, because of the use, that naturally it can no longer defend the marrow inside as it must

Confeccionaba os xabonciños a partir dunha bola de toelo, unha especie de mármore brando, que se colle pola zona das canteiras de serpentina

2008, Guillermo Llorca Freire, Ferrol: memoria da vida cotiá, page 263:

He made his savonnetts from a lump of toelo, kind of a soft marble that they take around the serpentine quarrels


ámago

Unknown; perhaps from Vulgar Latin *amidum, from amylum (“starch”). Cognate with Portuguese âmago and Spanish hámago.

fazese hũa espeçya dencrauadura que dana en fondo de dentro o tuello que chaman amago

1409, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Tratado de Albeitaria, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 149:

[the horses] can made a piercing that injures inside from the bottom the soft part called marrow

marrow or live bone under a horn or a hoof


aparelloa

Attested since the 15th century. An old diminutive of aparello (“device”): aparello + -oa.

Iten sabado seginte destes ao dito Alvaro da Rocha et seu moço dose moravedis et a septe carpenteiros cinquoeenta et seis moravedis et a quatro serventes des et oyto moravedis et a oyto serventes do Girio oyto moravedis hũa aparelloa çinquo moravedis que monta noveenta et nove moravedis.

1418, Á. Rodríguez González (ed.), Libro do Concello de Santiago (1416-1422). Santiago de Compostela: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 118

Item, next Saturday you paid to said Álvaro da Rocha and his apprentice twelve maravedis and to seven carpenters fifty-six maravedis and to four servants eighteen maravedis and to eight servants of the shire eight maravedis, a stretcher five maravedis, which amounts to ninety-nine maravedis

(construction, dated) stretcher for moving heavy loads in short trajects


padia

padias (plural)
pádea (alternative)
paria (alternative)

From Late Latin patĭna (“manger”), from Ancient Greek πατάνη (patánē). Cognate with French panne, Gascon Occitan paneau, German Pfette (“purlin”).

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

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

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

(construction) each one of the four beams or boards of a roof, which lie directly above the walls


pabea

pabeas (plural)
pabía (alternative)
pavea (alternative)
pobea (alternative)
pobía (alternative)

Unknown; perhaps from a derivative of Latin pabulum. Cognate with Portuguese paveia.

xeiras grandes e pobeas raras levan donos á terras estrañas

long working days and few gavels take the owner to strange lands

gavel (a small heap of grain not tied up into a bundle)


borrea

borreas (plural)
aborrea (alternative)
borré (alternative)
borrén (alternative)

heap of brushwood and clods which is burned and then used as fertilizer


coella

coellas (plural)
coenlla (alternative)
covella (alternative)
covenlla (alternative)

From Latin caulicula, a diminutive of Latin caulis. Cognate with Spanish colleja.

en como foran por cuatro ou çinco veses á hua sua horta, que está en Ouçande, et que lla astragaran toda eno veraao et en este inuerno et quarta feira, et o dia donte se foran outra ves á dita orta, dando ena viña et orta, et arrincaran as verças et coellas, fasta un carro de verças, et todas arrincaran et leuaran, en diñeiros que non quisera por tresentos morauedis vellos

1459, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 332:

and how they went four or five times to his garden, which is in Ouzande; and how they destroyed it completely in the summer and this winter and Wednesday; and yesterday they went again to said garden, by the vineyard and garden, and they uprooted the greens collards and young collards, till a cartful of green collards, and that all of them they uprooted and took away, valued no less than three hundred old maravedis;


enfondura

Vello das brancas gadellas: non s'enganou o que dixo que unha vez vello dúas veces neno. Non sei de qué xuncras lle sirve a esperencia que adiquiriu cos anos. ¿Pra qué se anda metendo en enfonduras?

1884, O tío Marcos da Portela, II, 51, page 6:

Old man of the white mane: the one who said "once and old man, twice a child" was not wrong. I don't know what the hell it's good to you the experience you gained with age. Why are you getting into deep waters?


infondura

infonduras (plural)
enfondura (alternative)

(figuratively) labyrinth, anything complicated or confusing, like a maze


enxangada

[enʃaŋɡˈaðɐ]

Attested since 1807. From enxangar, "to yoke" > "to obstruct".

Decote acarón da casa,
Vemos cousas á ó revés;
E non marran enxangadas
Que nos fan doer as siés.

1846, Vicente Turnes, Aos augustos desposorios de Isabel II:

Daily by our house
We see thing upside down
And there's no lack of jams
that make our temples hurt

(figuratively) nuisance, bother; jam, mess; anything complicated or confusing


pecheira

From local Late Latin *pesclaria, from Latin pessulus (“bolt”). Compare Asturian pesllera.

lock (metal mechanism that is put on doors, lids, etc., to close them, and that is usually activated with a key)


fumeira

From fume (“smoke”) + -eira; or directly from Latin fūmārium (“smoke chamber”).


parrumeira

parrumeiras (plural)
aparrumeira (alternative)
parreira (alternative)
parroeira (alternative)
parromeira (alternative)
parrugueira (alternative)

vertical stone by the hearth which protects people, animals and ware from the fire

ashcompartment by the hearth or oven; ashtray

firewood compartment by the hearth or oven


parruma

parrumas (plural)
parroma (alternative)
parromo (alternative)
parrume (alternative)

From an older *parrua or *parrũa (compare the derived term parroeira / parrugueira / parromeira). Further etymology unknown.

Agardan xa na Pont'a Valga os rapaces polas mozas; uns con naranxas na man cheas de parromo do forno, outros con fariña triga, da que as nais tiñan gardada pra facer filloas, metida no peto e con xiringas feitas dun cacho de cana i un pau con estopa na punta os máis deles.

1911, F. Potel Pardal, Costumes da Terra, page 52:

The boys awaits for the girls at the bridge over the Valga river: some of them with oranges in hand, full of ashes of the oven; others with wheat flour -of the one that the mothers had for making crepes- in the pocket; and most of them with squirt guns made with a piece of cane and a twig with tow at its tip


tamboira

Unknown, perhaps from a local Celtic substrate language, ultimately from *temH- (“dark”)


pelexa

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese peleja (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria); back-formation from pelexar. Compare Portuguese peleja.

inh+

considerando e veendo como ẽno tenpo presente se ocurren de cada dia moytos bandos, pelejas, desastres, revoltas, roubos, penoras, furtos, prijõos e outros moytos dapnos que veen e creçen de cada dia en este Regno de Galisa e espeçialmente en esta terra e arçobispo de Santiago

1444, A. Rodríguez González (ed.), Livro do Concello de Pontevedra (1431-1463). Pontevedra: Museo de Pontevedra, page 182

considering and seeing how at the present time there happen every day many gangs, fights, disasters, revolts, robberies, pawns, thefts, kidnappings and many other harms that come and increase each day in this Kindgom of Galicia, and especially in this land and archbishop[ric] of Santiago


olfate

From Latin olfactus (“sense of smell”), perfect passive participle of olfaciō (“I smell”).


ulido

From the past participle of ulir (“to smell”).


mantenza

[mãn̪ˈt̪ɛn̪.θɐ]

[mãn̪ˈt̪ɛn̪.θɐ]

From Old Galician-Portuguese *mantẽença, from manter + -enza. Compare English maintenance.

Outrosi amoestamos en Deus todolos fiees cristaos a que esta carta for mostrada que façan ben et aiuda et esmola ao dito lugar para a obra et para a manteença das ditas donas

1340, Clara Rodríguez Núñez (ed.), "Santa María de Belvís, un convento mendicante femenino en la Baja Edad Media (1305-1400)", in Estudios Mindonienses, 5, page 481

Also we admonish in God to all the Christian believers whom this charters is shown to, for them to do good and help and alms to said place, for the building and for the sustenance of said nuns


mantemento

From Old Galician-Portuguese *mantẽemento, from manter + -mento. Compare Portuguese mantimento and Spanish mantenimiento.

Sabean todos que ante min Bernal de la Roqua, juyz ordinario de Santiago, vêô Maria Bernaldes, moller que foy de Pero Eanes de Uillarchâô, que he en frigresia de san Migel de Pereyra e disome que o dito seu marido era finado et que ficara del huun seu fillo Garçia, pequeno et sen ydade, o qual disso que tîîna en seu poder, et o qual seu fillo disso que pereçia por mingoa de manteemento por razon que non tîîna ella nen podia auer que lle dar de comer

1322, 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 118

Let everyone know that before me, Bernal de la Roca, ordinary judge in Santiago, there came María Bernáldez, wife of late Pero Eanes de Vilarchao, which is in the parish of San Miguel de Pereira; and she said that said husband was deceased and had left one son named García, small and with no age, whom she had in her possession, and she said that said son was perishing for lack of sustenance because she has not nor she could have for feeding him


buxón

Borrowed from Middle French bouchon (“bundle of hemp or foliage, oakum”).

bor

scupper hole (a drainage hole on the bilge of a boat)

lower edge of the chute (in a water mill)


abelurio

abelurios (plural)
abelúrio (alternative)

(Iberian folklore, mythology, fantasy) a mischievous mythological creature, similar to a goblin, found in the legends of the Northwest of the Iberian peninsula


zarabeto

gl-noun

zarabeto m (plural zarabetos, feminine zarabeta, feminine plural zarabetas)

zarabetos (plural)
zarabeta (feminine)
zarabetas (feminine plural)


melandro

From Latin mēlēs (“badger”). Cognate with Asturian melandru.


zoqueiro

zoqueiro m (plural zoqueiros, feminine zoqueira, feminine plural zoqueiras)

zoqueiros (plural)
zoqueira (feminine)
zoqueiras (feminine plural)


pousadoiro

pousadoiros (plural)
pousadouro (alternative)


ruxidoiro

ruxidoiros (plural)
roxedoiro (alternative)

From Vulgar Latin rugitorium or else from ruxir (“roar”) + -doiro.