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1707, Salvador Francisco Roel, Entremés ao real e feliz parto da nosa raíña:
Vinte cinco ducias D'obos eu lle ofrezo, porque teñan conque fazer os Formigos, e de mel vnha caldeyra, que os meus cobos e cortizos teñen moy boas entenas; porque sairon ogano moytos enjames d'abellas.
Twenty-five dozens of eggs I offer her, so that they have the necessary to cook the formigos; and of honey a cauldron, because my skeps and hives have very good honeycombs, because this year many swarms of bees went out
1409, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Tratado de Albeitaria, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 157:
Cauallo que ha a door no corpo dentro contynoadamente ten as orellas fryas et os ollos couos he mal enfermo
the horse who has pain inside his body continuously, has his ears cold and the eyes hollow; he is badly sick
References
“cova” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
“covo” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
“covo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
“covo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.