Noun: lobishome
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | lobishome |
| Plural m | lobishomes |
Sample Sentences
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pelos casares do Outeyro e pela fonte do Lubus ome (by the houses of Outeiro and by the fountain of the werewolf) [1279, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 37:]
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Moito eu chorei o domingo a tarde
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que veña Lorenzo, que diga a verdade,
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que diga a verdade; pero con cautela
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túa nai é bruxa, teño medo dela,
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teño medo dela porque ela me come,
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túa nai é bruxa, tua nai é bruxa,
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teu pai lobishome (I cried all Sundays' afternoon
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lets Lourenzo come and tell the truth
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tell the truth, but with precaution
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your mother is a witch, I fear her
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I fear hear because she eats me
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your mother is a witch, your mother is a witch
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your father a werewolf) [1946, Antonio Fraguas, “El lobo en las tierras de Cotovad”, in Boletín de la Comisión Provincial de Monumentos Históricos e Artísticos de Ourense, volume XV, pages 129-137:]
Nouns inflected like lobishome
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
11th century (nickname "Lubusome" inside a Latin text). From lubus (“wolf”) + home (“man”), perhaps a calque of Germanic: compare Proto-West Germanic *werawulf. Cognate of Portuguese lobisomem. See: Portuguese Nouns '
lobisomem'.
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