lovelo

Old Galician-Portuguese

Alternative forms

• novelo (documented from 1258)

Etymology

From Late Latin lubellum < globellum, diminutive from Latin globus.

Attested in this form since 1209. The alternative form above appears to have resulted from dissimilation of /l/.

Noun

lovelo f (plural lovelos)

1. ball (of wool, etc.)

Descendants

• Fala: nuvelu
• Galician: nobelo, dobelo
• Portuguese: novelo

References

• Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1985) “ovillo”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume IV (Me–Re), Gredos, →ISBN, page 328