abelá
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Abelás ("hazelnuts")
Galician
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese avelãa, from Latin abellana (“filbert, hazelnut”), from nux abellana ("nut from Avella"), from Abella (Avella, a city in the Campania region of Italy). Cognate with Portuguese avelã and Spanish avellana.
Pronunciation
Noun
abelá f (plural abelás)
- hazelnut
- (countable and uncountable) hazel (a greenish-brown colour, the colour of a ripe hazelnut)
- abelá:
- 1321, E. Cal Pardo, editor, Colección diplomática medieval do arquivo da catedral de Mondoñedo, Santiago: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 119:
- duas cruses vnna blanca et vnna auelaa
- two crosses, one white and one hazel
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References
- Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “avelãa”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “auela”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “abela”, 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), “abelá”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “abelá”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN