Noun: andas
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
Sample Sentences
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Et por esta razõ sempre andou en andas et en colo dos omes ata que morreu. (And for this reason he always went in litters and in the arms of men until he died) [c. 1295, R. Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F, page 690:]
Nouns inflected like andas
metafísica,
serina,
quitamerendas,
míllaras,
orixinalidade,
mobilidade,
constitucionalidade,
terza feira,
auga doce,
fotosíntese,
glutamina,
barbas de raposo,
ximnasia,
crioloxía,
microbioloxía,
filoloxía,
petanca,
ELA,
gravitación,
quintaesencia, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Attested since circa 1300. From Old Galician-Portuguese amedes (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin amites. Cognate with Portuguese and Spanish andas. See: Old Portuguese Nouns '
amedes', Latin Nouns '
ames'.
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