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Galician
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese golpella, from Old Galician-Portuguese *vulpicla, from Latin vulpēcula (“fox kit”), diminutive of vulpēs (“fox”).
Noun
golpella f (plural golpellas)
- (archaic) red fox
Derived terms
Related terms
References
- “golpella” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
- “golpella” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
- “golpella” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
Old Galician-Portuguese
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *vulpicla, from Latin vulpēcula (“fox kit”), diminutive of vulpēs (“fox”), from earlier volpēs, from Proto-Italic *wolpi, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wl(o)p- ~ *h₂ulp- (“(red) fox”).
Pronunciation
Noun
golpella f (masculine golpello)
- red fox
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- apeſar do dem aſtroſo que e peor q̇ golpello.
- in spite of the odious devil who is worse than a fox.
Descendants