nimigalla

Galician

Alternative forms

• nemigalla, nin migalla

Etymology

From Old Galician-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, editor, 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]

   • 1417, M. Lucas Álvarez, P. Lucas Domínguez, editors, El monasterio de San Clodio do Ribeiro en la Edad Media: estudio y documentos, Sada / A Coruña: Edicións do Castro, page 578:

     que os que morauan en a dita pousa que nunca desto pagaron ni migalla

     that the ones living in said place that of this never paid nothing at all

   • 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

Related terms

• migalla
• migallo

References

• “nemigalla” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “migal” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “nimigalla” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “nimigalla” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.