Trobe

Galician

Etymology

Attested as Toovre in Medieval Galician/Old Galician-Portuguese documents[1] and as Talobre in local Medieval Latin documents. From a Celtic composite noun *Talobrix, from the deuterotheme *brixs (“hill”) and a prototheme derived from Proto-Celtic *talu (“forehead > top”).[2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtɾɔβe̝/

Proper noun

Trobe m

  1. a parish of Vedra, A Coruña, Galicia

References

  • “Trobe” in Xavier Gómez Guinovart & Miguel Solla, Aquén. Vigo: Universidade de Vigo, 2007-2017.
  1. ^ Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “tooure”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
  2. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 77 and 367.
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