mámoa

Galician

FWOTD – 5 February 2015

Etymology

excavation of a megalithic tomb at Dombate, Galicia

A mámoa, covered by trees and vegetation

From Latin mammula, diminutive of mamma (“breast”). Cognate with Portuguese mamoa and Spanish mambla.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈma.mo̯a/

Noun

mámoa f (plural mámoas)

1. barrow; a type of megalithic structure found along Atlantic Europe consisting of a tomb (dolmen) inside a round, artificial hill once coated by a layer of stones

   Synonyms: anta, forno

   • 2003, Mercedes Vázquez Saavedra, O Courel, Galaxia, page 45:

     Entre a pista e as penas hai unha mámoa cuberta de vexetación no chamado Veiga de Arcas.

     Between the path and the rocks there is a megalithic tomb covered by vegetation in the so-called Meadow of Arcas.

2. this same artificial hill

   Synonyms: medoña, medorra

Derived terms

• Mámoa
• Mámoas
• Mamoelas

References

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

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmamoa/ [ˈma.mo.a]
• Rhymes: -amoa
• Syllabification: má‧mo‧a

Noun

mámoa f (plural mámoas)

1. barrow