andar – Galician noun declension

Galician noun forms of andar

Noun: andar
Gender: m Hyphenation:
Singular mandar
Plural mandares

Sample Sentences

  • 1833, Florencio Pol, Espello de deputados, page 4 (in Ramón Mariño Paz (2008), Papés d'emprenta condenada. A escrita galega entre 1797 e 1846.) (arriving there I found his house, which is just straight down the promenade, on the same floor I asked for the lord, but at the moment I saw him coming down)
  • sol [...] tanto he oseu lume et tam grande o poder (dos) seus rrayos que por donde el vay tolle áás outras planetas o andar (the Sun … it is so large its light and so big the power of its rays that wherever it goes it takes from the other planets its walk) [c. 1300, R. Martínez López, editor, General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV, Oviedo: Publicacións de Archivum, page 183:]
  • Éche un andar miudiño, miudiño, miudiño, o que eu traio. Que eu traio unha borracheira, de viño, c'auga non bebo (It's a slow, slow pace which brings me. Since I'm drunk of wine, 'cause I don't drink water)

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese andar, from Early Medieval Latin andāre, of uncertain origin. See: Old Portuguese Nouns 'andar', Old Portuguese Nouns 'andar'.

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