teima – Galician noun declension

Galician noun forms of teima

Noun: teima
Gender: f Hyphenation:
Singular fteima
Plural fteimas

Sample Sentences

  • E Vos non vedes à teima
  • En que deu à mia gente,
  • Que ey de glossar de repente
  • Sin ter geño nin freima:
  • Vàn à Madril eu a Reyma, (Don't you see the mania
  • my people have caught
  • that I'm going to gloss at the moment
  • having no temper or phlegm?
  • They are going to Madrid, I to the paper,) [1723, Anselmo Feixó e Montenegro, E vós non vedes a teima?:]

Etymology

Attested since 1671. Perhaps from Latin thema, from Ancient Greek θέμα (théma); the diphthong would be an irregular development, maybe due to the influx of other learned words. See: Latin Nouns 'thema', Ancient Greek Nouns 'θέμα'.

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