mámoa
Appearance
Galician
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin mammula, diminutive of mamma (“breast”). Cognate with Portuguese mamoa and Spanish mambla.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]mámoa f (plural mámoas)
- barrow; a type of megalithic structure found along Atlantic Europe consisting of a tomb (dolmen) inside a round, artificial hill once coated by a layer of stones
- 2003, Mercedes Vázquez Saavedra, O Courel, Galaxia, page 45:
- Entre a pista e as penas hai unha mámoa cuberta de vexetación no chamado Veiga de Arcas.
- Between the path and the rocks there is a megalithic tomb covered by vegetation in the so-called Meadow of Arcas.
- this same artificial hill
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “mamoa”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “mamoa”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “mamoa”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “mámoa”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Spanish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]mámoa f (plural mámoas)
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- Rhymes:Spanish/amoa
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