balea

From Proto-Basque *baLena, from Latin ballaena.[1]

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balea anim

1. whale

   Baleak itsas ugaztun handiak dira.

   Whales are big sea mammals.

• Basque-Icelandic Pidgin: balja

• baleazale
• baleontzi

Attested since the 13th century. From Old Galician-Portuguese balẽa, from Latin ballaena, from Ancient Greek φάλλαινα (phállaina). Compare Portuguese baleia, Spanish ballena, or Basque balea.

• IPA^(key): /baˈlea̝/

balea f (plural baleas)

1. baleen whale
2. whale
   • 1291, E. Cal Pardo, editor, Colección diplomática medieval do arquivo da catedral de Mondoñedo, Santiago: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 79:

     et disso que despenderan en tres ueces que fora a San Cibrao a pinnorar a balea et a entregala ccc mor. et disso que ennas pinnaças et no trager da balea metera c mor. et quandor foronon o maestreescola et don Pedro Dias a San Cibrao con quinentos ommes et con xxx a caualo por tomar esta balea aos ommes do infante

     and he said that he spent, in three times that he went to San Cibrao to pawn the whale and to deliver it, 300 mor.; and he said that in the pinnaces and in the delivery of the whale he spent 100 mor.; and when the schoolmaster and lord Pedro Dias went to San Cibrao with five hundred peons and 30 mounted men, for seizing the whale from the prince's men

3. whalebone

• Balea
• baleato
• Baleato
• baleeiro

Ultimately from Proto-Celtic *banatlo- (“broom”). Compare French balai, from Gaulish *balano-.[1]

• IPA^(key): /baˈlea̝/

balea f (plural baleas)

1. broom

• baleadoira

• “balea” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “balea” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “balea” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “balea” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

balea

1. inflection of balear:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative