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Galician
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese nemigalla (literally “not a crumb”). Cognate with Portuguese nemigalha.
Pronunciation
Adverb
nimigalla
- (dated) nothing; nothing at all; absolutely nothing
1273, E. Duro Peña, editor, Documentos da catedral de Ourense, Santiago de Compostela: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 337:e renunço todas razoes e todas excepsoes e todo dereyto que non aya ende nen-un por min par nunqua yr contra este prazo nen le possa dizer nemigalla- I renounce every reason and every exception and every right; that never can be one that in my name could go against this charter, nor could they say nothing
1417, M. Lucas Álvarez, P. Lucas Domínguez, editors, El monasterio de San Clodio do Ribeiro en la Edad Media: estudio y documentos, Sada / A Coruña: Edicións do Castro, page 578:que os que morauan en a dita pousa que nunca desto pagaron ni migalla- that the ones living in said place that of this never paid nothing at all
- 1779, Diego Antonio Cernadas y Castro, Obras en prosa y verso del Cura de Fruime (vol. III), Madrid: Joachin Ibarra, 305-318, page 316:
Por eles sabemos nós tendes estados, e rendas con regalías tremendas, mais todo esto é nimigalla- Because of them we know that you have estates, and rents, and tremendous royalties, but all of this is nothing
- Synonyms: nada, ren, res
References
- Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “nemigalla”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “migal”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “nimigalla”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “nimigalla”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega