meniña – Galician noun declension

Galician noun forms of meniña

Noun: meniña
Gender: f Hyphenation:
Singular mmeniño
Singular fmeniña
Plural mmeniños
Plural fmeniñas

Sample Sentences

  • Tanto teño d’ir é vir
  • meniña ó teu lugar,
  • tanto teño d’ir é vir,
  • que d’unha te hey de levar. (So many times I must go and come,
  • girl, to your place,
  • so many time I must go and come,
  • that one time I'll carry you away.) [1814, Antonio Benito Fandiño, (Please provide the book title or journal name):]

Nouns inflected like meniña

becerra, palilleira, bruxa, esposa, moneca, meniña, boneca, moza, raposa,

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese menỹo (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria) of uncertain origin. Cognate with Portuguese menina. See: Old Portuguese Nouns 'menỹo', Portuguese Nouns 'menina'.

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