Noun: meigallo
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | meigallo |
| Plural m | meigallos |
Sample Sentences
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Ora en ti penso disperto, / ora en ti penso durmindo, / e sempre en ti estou pensando / coma si foses feitiço; Seique meigallo me deche / na festa do San Martiño, / amasado cos teus dedos / nunha bola de pantrigo (I think about you while awake, I think about you while sleeping; I'm always thinking about you as if it was witchery; I think that you gave me an enchantment, in the fair of Saint Martin, kneaded with you hands inside a ball of wheat bread) [1863, Rosalía de Castro, Cantares Gallegos:]
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Calquer pensara que un meigallo se lle meteu no corpo, ó ver como cambeou de súpeto. Esborrouse da súa boca a sonrisa pracenteira, fuxiu dos ollos o mirar churruscandeiro, velado agora por humedeceres de bágoas (Anyone would think that she was under a spell [that a meigallo entered her body] seeing how she changed overnight: the pleasant smile fade from her mouth and the burning looks fled from her eyes, clouded by the wetness of the tears) [1895, Heraclio Pérez Placer, Contos da Terriña:]
Nouns inflected like meigallo
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 meiga (“witch”) + -allo.
Translations