moleira – Galician noun declension

Galician noun forms of moleira

Noun: moleira
Gender: f Hyphenation:
Singular fmoleira
Plural fmoleiras

Sample Sentences

  • Homes, jentes à rribeira,
  • tocai ò sino apilido,
  • que esta o Roleiro firido
  • polo medio da moleira.
  • rapaces, mulleres, bellos
  • eilos ben nunha bandada, (Men, people, to the banks!
  • Toll the bells, alarm!
  • Roleiro is wounded
  • by the middle of the head.
  • Young ones, women, elders
  • here they come together in a flock,) [1671, Gabriel Feixoo, Contenda dos labradores de Caldelas:]
  • Non sei qué xuncras traguía na moleira o Seor Pedro, que o vin no outro onte carreirando, como un neno, e axuntando aos seus veciños, pra que onde ao seu palleiro fosen axiña a agoardá-lo; Eu non sei si un formigueiro de vermes lle boligaban entre os miolos dos sesos, pois semellaba a un doente, pro casi arrincando os pelos de debaixo da monteira, sin ton, nin son, e sin xeito; Eu non sei qué lle proía, eu non sei, si tiña o demo; porque os folgos eran fogos e os ollos dous candeeiros, e a cara toda prigada, amostrando os seus chavellos coa boca de un palmo aberta, babexado o fuciñeiro, parecía un estraloxe, un estraloxe de un vello (I don't know what damned thing was bringing in his head Mr. Pedro, whom I saw the day before yesterday running around, as a kid, and gathering his neighbours asking them to come promptly to his barn and wait for him; I don't know if a colony of worms was scampering around the center of his brains, because he looked as a madman, almost pulling out the hair from under the hat, without rhyme of reason, and without care; I don't know what was itching him, I don't know if he was possessed by a demon; because his breath was fire and the eyes two lamps, and the face all folded, showing his fangs with mouth open wide, the snout drooled; he looked as a ravel, an old man's ravel) [1862, Manuel Magariños, Ferrocarril Compostelano:]

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese moleira (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria): mol (“soft”) + -eira, referring to the unossified calvaria of babies. See: Old Portuguese Nouns 'moleira'.

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