espelir

Galician

Alternative forms

• espilir

Etymology

From Latin expellere (“to expel; remove”). Doublet of expeler.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /espeˈliɾ/

Verb

1. (transitive) to shake off, to expel

   Synonym: sacudir

2. (transitive) to winnow; to select or separate straw and grass, etc.

   Synonyms: espallar, separar

3. (transitive) to fluff (flax, wool, etc.)

   Synonyms: cardar, carpir, escarmear

4. (intransitive) to fluff, to puff up (of dough)
5. (pronominal) to wake up
   • 1858, Juan Manuel Pintos, Contos da aldea que parecen historias da vila e historias da vila que parecen contos da aldea, page 119:

     No muíño de Pinchapava nunha fiada de inverno estando mozas e mozos xa cansados de bureo, para espelirse do sono todos eles propuxeron de poñerse a contar contos

     In Pinchapava's mill, during a winter evening, being the girls and boys tired of merrymaking, for waking up of their sleep, they proposed to tell tales

6. (figurative, pronominal) to wake up; to wise up
   • 1858, Juan Manuel Pintos, Contos da aldea que parecen historias da vila e historias da vila que parecen contos da aldea, page 150:

     ¿Vosté sabe cómo agora se espilen polos liceos as mozas, que asta recursos botan e ganan os preitos?

     Do you know how now the young ladies wise up around the lyceums? they even present appeals and win lawsuits!

Derived terms

• espelido (“ready, fast, intelligent”)

References

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “espelir”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “espilir”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “espelir”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “espelir”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN