Noun: cofia
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | cofia |
| Plural f | cofias |
Sample Sentences
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comprarein na vila cousas a desexo: corpiño, manguiñas, cintiñas, ourelos, e mais unha coifa e mais un espello (I'll buy in town everything I'd wish: bodice, sleeves, ribbons, borders, and a coif and a mirror) [1746, frei Martín Sarmiento, Coloquio de 24 gallegos rústicos:]
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mando vender a miña cóffea do çendal e hua maça d'açeyro [..] et dous canbaysses e hua cóffea d'armar et mays huun rocín (I order to sell my coif of sendal and an iron mace [..] and two cabaysses [?] and a coif of armor and a rowney) [1361, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 92:]
Nouns inflected like cofia
sedela,
semana,
estimulación,
sabela,
saboga,
sandía,
juventude,
difusión,
estremonía,
souria,
somana,
soneca,
soncha,
sirena,
expresión,
ordenança,
cobertura,
homosexualización,
ringleira,
comedela, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Late Latin cofia, from Proto-West Germanic *kuffju. Compare Middle High German kupfe (“cap”), Old High German kupphia (“cap”), English coif, French coiffer. See: English Nouns '
coif'.
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