Noun: moleira
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | moleira |
| Plural f | moleiras |
Sample Sentences
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Homes, jentes à rribeira,
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tocai ò sino apilido,
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que esta o Roleiro firido
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polo medio da moleira.
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rapaces, mulleres, bellos
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eilos ben nunha bandada, (Men, people, to the banks!
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Toll the bells, alarm!
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Roleiro is wounded
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by the middle of the head.
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Young ones, women, elders
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here they come together in a flock,) [1671, Gabriel Feixoo, Contenda dos labradores de Caldelas:]
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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:]
Nouns inflected like moleira
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
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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