mámoa
Galician
FWOTD – 5 February 2015
Etymology
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excavation of a megalithic tomb at Dombate, Galicia
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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)
- 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.
- Entre a pista e as penas hai unha mámoa cuberta de vexetación no chamado Veiga de Arcas.
- 2003, Mercedes Vázquez Saavedra, O Courel, Galaxia, page 45:
- this same artificial hill
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.
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