Noun: luva
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | luva |
| Plural f | luvas |
Sample Sentences
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c. 1350, Kelvin M. Parker (ed.), Historia Troyana. Santiago: Instituto "Padre Sarmiento", page 184 (And when he saw that it was time to go, he snatched a glove from her hand)
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c. 1350, Kelvin M. Parker (ed.), Historia Troyana. Santiago: Instituto "Padre Sarmiento", page 186 (And old of them brought Turkish bows, and gloves of steel, and very sharp arrows)
Nouns inflected like luva
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
13th century. From Gothic 𐌻𐍉𐍆𐌰 (lōfa, “palm of the hand”), from Proto-Germanic *lōfô (“palm of the hand”). Alternatively, from Suevic [Term?] *glufa, from Proto-Germanic *galōfô (compare dialectal Spanish goluba). See: Gothic Nouns '
𐌻𐍉𐍆𐌰', Spanish Nouns '
goluba'.
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