Noun: berberecho
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | berberecho |
| Plural m | berberechos |
Sample Sentences
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Inda a nai non pon o pé
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por adentro do portelo
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xa chegan os seus miniños
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«a min, a min berberecho» ;
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cisca uns poucos pola eira
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os rapaces van collé-los
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de gatiñas uns con outros
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levantandose e caendo.
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Dimpois tódo-los da casa
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arredor do fol ou cesto
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non se afartan de gandire
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os birbirichiños frescos; (Mother hasn't even
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put her foot ahead the gate
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when her children come asking
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«to me, to me, cockle»;
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she scatters a few by the yards
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the kids try to catch them
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squatting, ones and others
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standing and falling.
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Later, everyone at the house,
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around the bag or basket,
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they don't get tired of devouring
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the fresh little cockles;) [1853, Xoán Manuel Pintos, A Gaita Gallega, page 158:]
Nouns inflected like berberecho
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
Unknown. Perhaps from a substrate language; otherwise from berbecho (“cockle; goatee”), from a local Vulgar Latin *berbēcclus < *berbēciclus, a diminutive of Latin berbēx ("ram", compare Galician carneiro (“warty venus ((Venus verrucosa); cockle”, literally “ram”))). In any case, related to Portuguese berbigão. See: Latin Nouns '
vervēx', Galician Nouns '
carneiro', Portuguese Nouns '
berbigão'.
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