coitela – Galician noun declension

Galician noun forms of coitela

Noun: coitela
Gender: f Hyphenation:
Singular fcoitela
Plural fcoitelas

Sample Sentences

  • ¿Galicia? ... ¿Ónd'stá? ¿Ónde vai a nosa fermosa e podente Galicia? ¿Ónde pára? ¿ónde? aquela casta d'héroes fartos qu'o mesmo tremaron as follas das súas coitelas diante das naceós veciñas, acoradas, escorrentadas, por os bárbaros e a mouramia (Galicia? Where are you? What have become of our beauty a strong Galicia? Where it is now? Where that lineage of lavish heroes who waved their blades before the neighbouring nations, frightened, driven away by the barbarians and the Moors?) [1859, J. Domínguez d'Esquerdo, Coroas e cadeas do fidalgo povo galicián:]

Etymology

Attested since circa 1370. From coitelo.

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