Noun: miñoca
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | miñoca |
| Plural f | miñocas |
Sample Sentences
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Deixáradesme ir pra terra, pra que as miñocas as tripas e os ósos me esfuracasen e me sugasen axiña (You'll let me go to the earth, for the earthworms to drill and suck my guts and my bones) [1858, O Seor Pedro, Romance Gallego..., Santiago: Imprenta de Manuel Mirás, page 2:]
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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. (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.) [1894, Luís Otero Pimentel, Truada de rapaces:]
Nouns inflected like miñoca
sedela,
semana,
estimulación,
sabela,
saboga,
sandía,
juventude,
difusión,
estremonía,
souria,
somana,
soneca,
soncha,
sirena,
expresión,
ordenança,
cobertura,
homosexualización,
ringleira,
comedela, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese miuca, of unknown origin.
2. Cognate with Borana miñoca, Portuguese minhoca, Asturian milu and meruca. See: Old Portuguese Nouns '
miuca', Old Portuguese Nouns '
miuca', Portuguese Nouns '
minhoca'.
Verbs referencing "miñoca"
Old Portuguese Nouns
miuca.
Translations