gurgullo

Galician

Etymology 1

14th century. From Vulgar Latin *gurguliu, from gurguliō, from curculiō.[1] Cognate with Portuguese gorgulho and Spanish gorgojo.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡuɾˈɣuʎo̝/

Noun

gurgullo m (plural gurgullos)

  1. weevil
    • 1390, José Luís Pensado Tomé (ed.), Os Miragres de Santiago. Versión gallega del Códice latino del siglo XII atribuido al papa Calisto I. Madrid: C.S.I.C., page 117:
      Aquel que ẽnas fauas faz naçer os gurgullos et ẽnas aruores os vermẽes sen ajuda de nĩgẽ
      He who makes the weevils to be born in the beans and caterpillars in the trees with the help of none

References

  • gurgullo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • gurgullo” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • gurgullo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • gurgullo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • gurgullo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
  1. Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983–1991) “gorgojo”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

Verb

gurgullo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of gurgullar
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