Noun: puñal
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | puñal |
| Plural m | puñais |
Sample Sentences
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Iten huun puñal dourado que ten duas onças de prata et huuns canivetes garnidos et huun relicario con sua cadea (Item, a gilded poniard which have two ounces of silver and some garnished knives and a reliquary with its necklace) [1398, Anselomo López Carreira (ed.), Documentos do arquivo da catedral de Ourense (1289-1399), doc. 502]
Nouns inflected like puñal
xornal,
funeral,
barazal,
perixel,
persoal,
pebidal,
parasol,
substancial,
genital,
pirixel,
tornasol,
corporal,
lestegal,
guindal,
cabezal,
canaval,
cardeal,
caravel,
caracol,
caritel, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
14th century. Either from puño (“wrist; fist”) + -al, from Latin pugnus (“fist”), or from a Vulgar Latin *pūgnālis, pūgnāle. Compare Portuguese punhal, Spanish puñal, Catalan punyal, Italian pugnale, French poignard, Romanian pumnal. See: Latin Nouns '
pugnus', Portuguese Nouns '
punhal', Spanish Nouns '
puñal', Catalan Nouns '
punyal', Italian Nouns '
pugnale', French Nouns '
poignard', Romanian Nouns '
pumnal'.
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