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Galician
palloza (thatched house) in eastern Galicia. Note the eves (beirado, beiral, beiril) made of slabs.
Etymology
Attested since 1358. From beira(“rim, border”) + -al.
1358, C. Rodríguez Núñez (ed.), "Santa María de Belvís, un convento mendicante femenino en la Baja Edad Media (1305-1400)", in Estudios Mindonienses, 5, page 433:
Et damos a vos a dita quarta parte das ditas casas con todos seus sotoos, sobrados, apanaeiras?, portaes et entradas, seydas et agoas veiraes et con todas outras suas perteenças et dreyturas,
We give to you this fourth of said houses with all of their ground and upper floors, walls, porches and entryways, exits and waters, eaves and with all of their other belongings and rights
Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “veiraes”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
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