Noun: xoia
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | xoia |
| Plural f | xoias |
Sample Sentences
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tomou Eliezer de suas joyas hũ par de serçelos douro (Eliezer took a pair of golden earrings from among his jewels) [c. 1300, R. Martínez López, editor, General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV, Oviedo: Archivum, page 234:]
Nouns inflected like xoia
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
1. First attested in c. 1300. From Old Galician-Portuguese joya (independently attested in both corpora), from Old French joie, from joiel (modern joyau), from Vulgar Latin *jocale, from Latin jocus. Doublet of xoel.
2. Compare Portuguese joia and Spanish joya. See: Latin Nouns '
iocus', Portuguese Nouns '
joia', Spanish Nouns '
joya'.
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