Trobe

Galician

Etymology

Attested as Toovre in Medieval Galician 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. “tooure” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
  2. Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 77 and 367.
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