enteimar
Galician
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [entejˈmaɾ]
Verb
enteimar (first-person singular present enteimo, first-person singular preterite enteimei, past participle enteimado)
- (intransitive, or transitive with en) to insist, persist
- (intransitive) to fixate on an idea; to become obsessed or develop an idée fixe
- 1775, María Francisca Isla y Losada, Romance:
- An que me trataches bén
s'á vesita non pagàs
dou ò demo pè ala poño
nin me alembro de vòs màis.
Q'èu, anque ben vós quero
coma si forades rapàz
tamen vos esquenzerei,
como dea en enteimar.- Although thou treated me well
If the visit thou don't pay
No way I'm putting a foot there
Or remembering thou anymore
Because, although I love thee well
As if you were a bachelor,
I'll forget thee
In case I fixate [on this idea]
- Although thou treated me well
Conjugation
1Less recommended.
References
- “enteimar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “enteimar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, since 2012
- “enteimar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “enteimar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
- “enteimar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
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