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
   • 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.

   Synonyms: anta, forno

2. this same artificial hill

   Synonyms: medoña, medorra

Derived terms

• Mámoa
• Mámoas
• Mamoelas

References

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• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “mamoa”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmamoa/ [ˈma.mo.a]

Noun

mámoa f (plural mámoas)

1. barrow