bugallo
See also: Bugallo
Galician
Alternative forms
Etymology
Uncertain. Perhaps from Proto-Celtic *bul(l)aka-, whence Old Irish bolach (“swelling, blister”), influenced by Latin galla.[1] Cognate with Portuguese bugalho
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -aɟo
- Hyphenation: bu‧ga‧llo
Noun
bugallo m (plural bugallos)
- gall (chiefly the oak gall or oak apple)
- Synonyms: bugalla, carrabouxo, coco, mazá de cuco
- (figurative) eyeball
- Synonym: globo ocular
Derived terms
- Bugallal
- Bugalleira
- Bugallido
- Bugallo (surname)
See also
- bugallo on the Galician Wikipedia.Wikipedia gl
References
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “bugal”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “bugallo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “bugallo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “bugallo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
- ^ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “bugalla”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos