ovelha – Portuguese noun declension

Noun: ovelha
Gender: f Hyphenation:

Singular f	ovelha
Plural f	ovelhas

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like ovelha

palestra, indumentária, metafísica, histerectomia, cumplicidade, serifa, sestra, secura, semana, estrebaria, estreiteza, savana, saroba, sapata, safena, safira, militança, sacada, sacola, sanita, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese ovelha, from Latin ovicula (“little sheep”), diminutive of ovis (“sheep”), from Proto-Italic *owis, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ówis or *h₃éwis (“sheep”). Compare Galician ovella, Mirandese oubeilha, Spanish oveja. See: Latin Nouns 'ovicula', Galician Nouns 'ovella', Spanish Nouns 'oveja'.

Verbs referencing "ovelha"

Spanish Nouns oveja, Galician Nouns ovella, Asturian Nouns oveya.

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