balẽa
Old Portuguese
Etymology
From Latin ballaena, variant of bālaena (“a whale”), from Ancient Greek φάλαινα (phálaina), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃- (“to inflate, blow, swell”), from *bʰel- (“to bloom”).
Cognate with Old Spanish ballena and Mozarabic balléna.
Pronunciation
Noun
balẽa f
Descendants
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- Old Galician-Portuguese terms derived from Latin
- Old Galician-Portuguese terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Old Galician-Portuguese terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Old Galician-Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Old Galician-Portuguese lemmas
- Old Galician-Portuguese nouns
- Old Galician-Portuguese feminine nouns