ovelha
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Galician
[edit]Noun
[edit]ovelha f (plural ovelhas, reintegrationist norm)
- reintegrationist spelling of ovella
Further reading
[edit]- “ovelha” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
Portuguese
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Etymology
[edit]From Old Galician-Portuguese ovelha, from Latin ovicula (“little sheep”), diminutive of ovis (“sheep”), from Proto-Italic *owis, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ówis or *h₃éwis (“sheep”). Compare Galician ovella, Mirandese oubeilha, Spanish oveja.
Pronunciation
[edit]
- Hyphenation: o‧ve‧lha
Noun
[edit]ovelha f (plural ovelhas, masculine carneiro, masculine plural carneiros)
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “ovelha” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
- “ovelha”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2024
- “ovelha”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
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- Galician lemmas
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- Galician feminine nouns
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- Portuguese terms derived from Latin
- Portuguese terms inherited from Proto-Italic
- Portuguese terms derived from Proto-Italic
- Portuguese terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- Portuguese terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Portuguese 3-syllable words
- Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese nouns
- Portuguese countable nouns
- Portuguese feminine nouns