palleiro

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Galician

Palleiro in Cerdido, Galicia

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Etymology

palla (“hay”) +‎ -eiro; cf. also Latin paleārium. Cognate with Portuguese palheiro.

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Noun

palleiro m (plural palleiros)

  1. conical haystack, assembled so as to preserve the hay from wind and rain
    Home xornaleiro nin boa meda, nin bo palleiro (proverb)
    day labourer; neither a good heap, nor a good haystack
    ―Comes moito, non si? ―"Un palleiro non se fai sen palla"!
    ―You eat a lot, don't you? ―"It takes hay to make a haystack!"
  2. dog with not known race or pedigree (back formation from can de palleiro)
  3. barn; shed for storing hay
    Synonym: palleira
    • 1433, Manuel Lucas Alvarez & María José Justo Martín (eds.), Fontes documentais da Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Pergameos da serie Bens do Arquivo Histórico Universitario (Anos 1237-1537). Santiago: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 344:
      o terreo do Vââo do Espineiro, en que ora ten Juan Martins o palleiro, e donde ora se o palleiro cabo da parede fasta outra parede de cimma de Vilachââ
      the terrain of Vao do Espiñeiro, where now Xoán Martís has his barn, from this barn, near the wall, till the other wall over Vilachán

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