balea

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See also: Balea, baleá, balẽa, and Bâlea

Basque

Etymology

From Proto-Basque *baLena, from Latin ballaena.

Pronunciation

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Noun

balea anim

  1. whale
    Baleak itsas ugaztun handiak dira.
    Whales are big sea mammals.

Declension

Declension of balea (animate, ending in -a)
indefinite singular plural
absolutive balea balea baleak
ergative baleak baleak baleek
dative baleari baleari baleei
genitive balearen balearen baleen
comitative balearekin balearekin baleekin
causative balearengatik balearengatik baleengatik
benefactive balearentzat balearentzat baleentzat
instrumental baleaz baleaz baleez
inessive balearengan balearengan baleengan
locative — — —
allative balearengana balearengana baleengana
terminative balearenganaino balearenganaino baleenganaino
directive balearenganantz balearenganantz baleenganantz
destinative balearenganako balearenganako baleenganako
ablative balearengandik balearengandik baleengandik
partitive balearik — —
prolative baleatzat — —

Descendants

  • Basque-Icelandic Pidgin: balja

See also

References

  1. ^ “balea” in Etymological Dictionary of Basque by R. L. Trask, sussex.ac.uk

Galician

Balea

Etymology 1

Attested since the 13th century. From Old Galician-Portuguese balẽa, from Latin ballaena, from Ancient Greek φάλλαινα (phállaina). Compare Portuguese baleia, Spanish ballena, or Basque balea.

Pronunciation

Noun

balea f (plural baleas)

  1. baleen whale
  2. whale
    • 1291, E. Cal Pardo, editor, Colección diplomática medieval do arquivo da catedral de Mondoñedo, Santiago: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 79:
      et disso que despenderan en tres ueces que fora a San Cibrao a pinnorar a balea et a entregala ccc mor. et disso que ennas pinnaças et no trager da balea metera c mor. et quandor foronon o maestreescola et don Pedro Dias a San Cibrao con quinentos ommes et con xxx a caualo por tomar esta balea aos ommes do infante
      and he said that he spent, in three times that he went to San Cibrao to pawn the whale and to deliver it, 300 mor.; and he said that in the pinnaces and in the delivery of the whale he spent 100 mor.; and when the schoolmaster and lord Pedro Dias went to San Cibrao with five hundred peons and 30 mounted men, for seizing the whale from the prince's men
  3. whalebone
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Ultimately from Proto-Celtic *banatlo- (“broom”). Compare French balai, from Gaulish *balano-.

Pronunciation

Noun

balea f (plural baleas)

  1. broom
Derived terms

References

  • “balea” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • “balea” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “balea” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “balea” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 53-54

Spanish

Verb

balea

  1. inflection of balear:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative
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