moio
Galician
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
moio m (plural moios)
- a unit of volume, equivalent to 8 olas or 128 litres
- 1370, R. Lorenzo (ed.), Crónica troiana. Introducción e texto. A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 591:
- Sobeiament me pesa porque naçí, ca ia mays de mil moyos de sange de bõos caualeyros son ia uertudos por mj̃.
- I'm really sorry, because since I was born more than a thousand moios of blood of good knights has been poured by me
- Sobeiament me pesa porque naçí, ca ia mays de mil moyos de sange de bõos caualeyros son ia uertudos por mj̃.
- 1370, R. Lorenzo (ed.), Crónica troiana. Introducción e texto. A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 591:
- (dated) a dry measure equivalent to 12 ferrados
References
- Template:R:DDGM
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “moyo”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “moio”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- Template:R:DDLG
- Template:R:TILG
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “moio”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN