nimigalla

Galician

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese nemigalla (literally not a crumb). Cognate with Portuguese nemigalha.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /nimiˈɣaʎa̝/

Adverb

nimigalla

  1. (dated) nothing; nothing at all; absolutely nothing
    • 1273, E. Duro Peña (ed.), Documentos da catedral de Ourense. Santiago de Compostela: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 337:
      e renunço todas razoes e todas excepsoes e todo dereyto que non aya ende nen-un por min par nunqua yr contra este prazo nen le possa dizer nemigalla
      I renounce every reason and every exception and every right; that never can be one that in my name could go against this charter, nor could they say nothing [against it]
    • 1779, Diego Antonio Cernadas y Castro, Obras en prosa y verso del Cura de Fruime (vol. III), Madrid: Joachin Ibarra, 305-318, page 316:
      Por eles sabemos nós tendes estados, e rendas con regalías tremendas, mais todo esto é nimigalla
      Because of them we know that you have estates, and rents, and tremendous royalties, but all of this is nothing
    Synonyms: nada, ren, res

References

  • nemigalla” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
  • nemigalla” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
  • nimigalla” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
  • nimigalla” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
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