valgada

Galician

Etymology

Unknown. Perhaps from a local Vulgar Latin *vallicata, from vallis (valley);[1] or else from a substrate language.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /balˈɣaða̝/

Noun

valgada m (plural valgadas)

  1. glen, dell, small valley in between mountains
    Synonyms: vaganta, valga, valiña

References

  1. ^ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “vaguada”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos