xeonllo – Galician noun declension

Galician noun forms of xeonllo

Noun: xeonllo
Gender: m Hyphenation:
Singular mxeonllo
Plural mxeonllos

Sample Sentences

  • Johan de Naue, alfayate deſta mééſma villa, eſtãdo en geonloſ preſo cõ hũa cadẽa na gargãta τ húús ferros nos péés, ante Johan Beya, alcayde de Monte Rey por Roy Paez de Bema que o queriã yr juſtiçar τ matar (Johan de Nave, tailor of this town, being on his knees, prisoner with a chain on his neck and fetters on his feet, before Johan Beya, mayor of Monterrei in the name of Roi Paez de Bema, who wanted to sentence him to death and to kill him) [1332, Clarinda de Azevedo Maia (ed.), História do galego-português. Estado linguístico da Galiza e do Noroeste de Portugal do século XII ao século XVI (com referência á situação do galego moderno). Coimbra: I.N.I.C., p. 155]
  • 1435, A. López Carreira, Fragmentos de notarios, doc. E2-8 (... they approached said Goterre Afonso and that the mentioned Fernando de Mourelos extracted the sword from its scabbard against said Goterre Afonso, for killing him; and his companions, as they saw this, helped him against said Goterre Afonso, and consequently he gave him a large wound in the left leg, in which he injured him from under the knee till the heel)

Nouns inflected like xeonllo

miligramo, mililitro, acontecemento, urodelo, ancoradoiro, vimieiro, serrón, sesego, sedeño, iceberg, sarrio, sabuio, sabugo, sabujo, sabuxo, sabelo, sangue, saibro, saltón, salmón, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

1. From Old Galician-Portuguese gẽolho, geonllo, gionllo, jeonllo, from Late Latin genuculum, alteration of Latin geniculum, diminutive of genū (“knee”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵónu.
2. Cognate with Portuguese joelho and Spanish hinojo. See: Old Portuguese Nouns 'gẽolho', Latin Nouns 'geniculum', Portuguese Nouns 'joelho', Spanish Nouns 'hinojo'.

Verbs referencing "xeonllo"

Portuguese Nouns joelho, Asturian Nouns xinoyu.

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