carballo – Galician noun declension

Galician noun forms of carballo

Noun: carballo
Gender: m Hyphenation:
Singular mcarballo
Plural mcarballos

Sample Sentences

  • 1353, M. Lucas Álvarez & P. Lucas Domínguez (eds.), El monasterio de San Clodio do Ribeiro en la Edad Media: estudio y documentos. Sada/A Coruña: Edicións do Castro, page 513 (1391 AD, Saturday, 6th of may, being under the oak of the church of Saint Michael of Osmo, before Roi Lourenzo, judge in the jurisdiction of Anllo …)
  • Camiños de perdiciós pratican os máis e os menos máis de cen. O carballo máis ferrudo si o becho lle crava o dente no raigado, amolece e xa golbudo vén ao chan prestamente derrumbado. Os vicios son bechos fortes que amolegan corpos duros e valentes (Roads to perdition, the most and the least practice more than a hundred. The most robust oak, if the bug sink his teeth in the roots, softens and, when rotten, comes to the ground promptly, slumped. Vices are strong bugs that soften hard and bold bodies.) [1853, Juan Manuel Pintos, A Gaita Gallega:]
  • Iten, os ditos Gonçaluo Ferrnandes e Gonçaluo Ferreiro se obrigaron de trager pera a obra da ponte d'Ourense oyteenta trabes de carballo, que ajan cada hua viinte e sete cóbedos conpridos en longo (Item, the aforementioned Gonzalo Fernandez and Gonzalo Ferreiro committed themselves to bring, for the construction of the bridge of Ourense, eighty beams of oak, each one at least twenty-seven cubits long) [1438, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 413:]

Nouns inflected like carballo

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

1. From Old Galician-Portuguese carvallo, also attested in local Medieval Latin document since the 8th century; from carba + -allo.
2. Cognate with Portuguese carvalho and Asturian carbayu. See: Old Portuguese Nouns 'carvallo', Portuguese Nouns 'carvalho', Asturian Nouns 'carbayu'.

Verbs referencing "carballo"

Portuguese Nouns carvalho, Spanish Nouns carvallo, Asturian Nouns carbayu.

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