vurullo

Galician

Alternative forms

• borullo, brullo, burullo
• brulho (reintegrationist)

Etymology

Either a back-formation from envurullar or from Vulgar Latin voluclum. Cognate with Portuguese brulho, Asturian boruyo and Spanish orujo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /buˈɾuʎo̝/

Noun

vurullo m (plural vurullos)

1. a cloth used to wrap babies up to when they are four or five months old
   • 1905, A. López Ferreiro, O Niño de Pombas:

     Estonces baixou, colleu o vulto onde seguían os laios, e veu que era un miniño metido nun vurullo rodeiado de vergas coma nunha cesta

     Then he descended, picked up the bulge from where the cries kept coming, and he saw that it was a baby inside a wrapped cloth, surrounded by wickers as that of a basket

References

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “vurullo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “borullo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “brullo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega (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), “vurullo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “vurullo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN