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Old Galician-Portuguese
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *foliola, diminutive of Latin folium (“leaf”).
Pronunciation
Noun
folloa f (plural folloas)
- (cooking, Galicia) crepe
1285, Miguel Romaní, editor, La colección diplomática de Santa María de Oseira (1025-1310), volume 2, page 1114:tres sartageadas de folloas- three frying panfuls of crepes
1398, Miguel Romaní, editor, La colección diplomática de Santa María de Oseira (1025-1310), volume 4, page 470:huna escudela de foloas de seseenta ovos et pan et vino con elas commo husan os outros nosos homes do couto de Olleiros.- a tray of crepes made with sixty eggs, and bread and wine as used to give by our other men in the fief of Oleiros
Descendants
Further reading
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “folloa”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG