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Galician
Etymology
Attested since 1269 until 1500. From porco (“pig”) + -alla.
Pronunciation
Noun
porcalla f (plural porcallas)
- (archaic) sow
1348, Clarinda de Azevedo Maia, editor, História do galego-português, Coimbra: I.N.I.C, page 159:ſſete ouellas τ dous años τ ſſete cabras τ quatro cabritos τ duas porcas τ mea doutra τ hũa porcalla con ſſeus fillos τ dose patas τ treσe gallinas cõ quatorze pĩtoos- seven sheep and two lambs and seven goats and four kids and two sows and a half and a sow with her sons and twelve ducks and thirteen hens with fourteen chicks
1473, M. Romaní Martínez, edited by M. P. Rodríguez Suárez, Libro tumbo de pergamino. Un códice medieval del monasterio de Oseira, Santiago de Compostela: Tórculo, page 58:mays huna porcalla çebada boa- and a god fattened sow
Derived terms
References
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “porcalla”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG