mámoa

Galician
FWOTD – 5 February 2015

Etymology
excavation of a megalithic tomb at Dombate, Galicia
A mámoa, covered by trees and vegetation

From Latin mammula, diminutive of mamma (“breast”). Cognate with Portuguese mamoa and Spanish mambla.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈma.mo̯a/

Noun

mámoa f (plural mámoas)

  1. barrow; a type of megalithic structure found along Atlantic Europe consisting of a tomb (dolmen) inside a round, artificial hill once coated by a layer of stones
    • 2003, Mercedes Vázquez Saavedra, O Courel, Galaxia, page 45:
      Entre a pista e as penas hai unha mámoa cuberta de vexetación no chamado Veiga de Arcas.
      Between the path and the rocks there is a megalithic tomb covered by vegetation in the so-called Meadow of Arcas.
    Synonyms: anta, forno
  2. this same artificial hill
    Synonyms: medoña, medorra

Derived terms
  • Mámoa
  • Mámoas
  • Mamoelas

References
  • “mamoa” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
  • “mamoa” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
  • “mamoa” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
  • “mámoa” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.

Spanish

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈmamoa/

Noun

mámoa f (plural mámoas)

  1. barrow
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