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Galician
Etymology
Por (“by”) pouco (“little”). Compare Portuguese por pouco and Spanish por poco.
Pronunciation
Adverb
por pouco
- nearly; almost
1390, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Os Miragres de Santiago. Versión gallega del Códice latino del siglo XII atribuido al papa Calisto I, Madrid: C.S.I.C., page 59:et entõ leuãtarse a hũa tã grãde tẽpestade, que por pouquo a naue seera afondada- and then a large tempest will rise, which will nearly cause the ship to sink
References
- “por pouco” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
- “por pouquo” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “por pouco” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “por pouco” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “por pouco” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Portuguese
Adverb
por pouco (not comparable)
- by a whisker; by a hair's breadth