Reconstruction:Old Galician-Portuguese/migalla

This Old Galician-Portuguese entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Old Galician-Portuguese

Etymology

From Iberian Vulgar Latin *mīcācula, from Latin mīca (“crumb”) + -culus (“diminutive suffix”). By surface analysis, miga (“crumb”) +‎ -alla (“diminutive suffix”). Compare Spanish migaja.

Noun

*migalla f (plural *migallas)

1. crumb (small piece which breaks off from baked food)

Derived terms

• nemigalla

Descendants

• Galician: migalla
• Portuguese: migalha