bico – Galician noun declension

Galician noun forms of bico

Noun: bico
Gender: m Hyphenation:
Singular mbico
Plural mbicos

Sample Sentences

  • -Ai que rico mazarico! / quen che deu tamaño bico? / -Deumo Deus e meus pecados, / que non os teño ben purgados (-So cute, curlew! Who gave you such a beak? -God gave it to me, and my sins, because they are not well purged)
  • Meniña, se che pesou / polos bicos que me deches, / devólveme os que che eu dei / e dareiche os que me deches (Baby, if you feel remorse because of the kisses you gave me, then give me back the ones I gave you, that I'll give you back the ones that you gave me)
  • Salirán cando volvades,
  • Para traervos en trunfo
  • Con gaitas e con ferreñas,
  • Todal as Mozas de rumbo.
  • Veredes como se botan
  • Todal as Vellas de bruzos
  • Para darvos moitos bicos
  • Por pés, por pernas, e muslos. (They'll come out on your return, [from war]
  • for bringing you in triumph
  • with bagpipes and jingles,
  • all the girls along the way
  • You'll see how
  • all the old ladies lie face down
  • To give many kisses
  • on your feet, legs and thighs) [1808, anonymous author, Un labrador que foi sarxento:]
  • deralle cõ aquela seeta por la queixada seestra e foralle por medeo da cabe[ç]a, et o biquo dela foralle ferir ẽna nariz. (he hit the arrow on his left jaw, it went through the middle of the head, and the tip of it just hurt him in the nose) [1390, José Luis Pensado Tomé, editor, Os Miragres de Santiago. Versión gallega del Códice latino del siglo XII atribuido al papa Calisto I, Madrid: CSIC, page 1:]
  • nisto outro golpe de mar beu, é deu á popa un bico (then another large wave came along, and it give the poop a blow) [1777, anonymous author, Romance da Urca de Santo Antón:]

Nouns inflected like bico

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

From Old Galician-Portuguese bico (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria); either from Latin beccus from Gaulish *beccos (“chicken beak”) interfered by picar, or directly from Paleo-Hispanic; ultimately from Proto-Celtic *bekkos (“hook”). See: Old Portuguese Nouns 'bico', Latin Nouns 'beccus'.

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