Grixoa
Galician
Alternative forms
- Grijoa (reintegrationist)
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese grijoa, from Late Latin ecclesiola (“little church”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡɾiˈʃɔa̝/
Proper noun
Grixoa f
- a parish of Santiago de Compostela, A Coruña, Galicia
- a parish of Santa Comba, A Coruña, Galicia
- Grixoa de Esternande (a parish of Santa Comba, A Coruña, Galicia)
- a parish of San Amaro, Ourense, Galicia
- a parish of Viana do Bolo, Ourense, Galicia
- a village in Berdoias parish, Vimiando, A Coruña, Galicia
Related terms
References
- “Grixoa” in Xavier Gómez Guinovart & Miguel Solla, Aquén. Vigo: Universidade de Vigo, 2007-2017.
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “grijoa”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Heinz Jürgen Wolf (2007) “Le type *PALATIOLUM et autres diminutifs en toponymie”, in Nouvelle revue d'onomastique[1], volumes 47-48, →ISSN, pages 229-243.