vurullo

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Galician

Alternative forms

Etymology

Either a back-formation from envurullar or from Vulgar Latin voluclum. Cognate with Portuguese brulho, Asturian boruyo and Spanish orujo.[1][2]

Pronunciation

Noun

vurullo m (plural vurullos)

  1. a cloth used to wrap babies up to when they are four or five months old
    • 1905, A. López Ferreiro, O Niño de Pombas:
      Estonces baixou, colleu o vulto onde seguían os laios, e veu que era un miniño metido nun vurullo rodeiado de vergas coma nunha cesta
      Then he descended, picked up the bulge from where the cries kept coming, and he saw that it was a baby inside a wrapped cloth, surrounded by wickers as that of a basket

References

  1. ^ Pensado, José Luis, Messner, Dieter (2003) “deborullo”, in Bachiller Olea: Vocabulos gallegos escuros: lo que quieren decir (Cadernos de Lingua: anexos; 7)‎, A Coruña: Real Academia Galega / Galaxia, →ISBN
  2. ^ Joan Coromines, José A Pascual (1983–1991) “orujo”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos