medoña

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Galician

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Etymology

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Unknown. Perhaps from a Celtic term related to Latin meta (conical heap).[1]

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Noun

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medoña f (plural medoñas)

  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: mámoa, medorra

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References

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  1. ^ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “médano”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Gredos