coella

Galician

Etymology 1

From Latin caulicula, a diminutive of Latin caulis. Cognate with Spanish colleja.

Alternative forms

• coenlla, covella, covenlla

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /koˈeʎa̝/

Noun

coella f (plural coellas)

1. young collard
   • 1459, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 332:

     en como foran por cuatro ou çinco veses á hua sua horta, que está en Ouçande, et que lla astragaran toda eno veraao et en este inuerno et quarta feira, et o dia donte se foran outra ves á dita orta, dando ena viña et orta, et arrincaran as verças et coellas, fasta un carro de verças, et todas arrincaran et leuaran, en diñeiros que non quisera por tresentos morauedis vellos

     and how they went four or five times to his garden, which is in Ouzande; and how they destroyed it completely in the summer and this winter and Wednesday; and yesterday they went again to said garden, by the vineyard and garden, and they uprooted the greens collards and young collards, till a cartful of green collards, and that all of them they uprooted and took away, valued no less than three hundred old maravedis;

Related terms

• coia
• col

Etymology 2

See coello (“rabbit”).

Alternative forms

• coenlla

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /koˈeʎa̝/

Noun

coella f (plural coellas)

1. rabbit (female)

Adjective

coella

1. feminine singular of coello (of rabbit)
   • 1350, A. Martínez Salazar, editor, Documentos gallegos de los siglos XIII al XVI, A Coruña: Casa de la Misericordia, page 19:

     de pena coella

     of rabbit hide

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “coella”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “coella”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “coella”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (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), “coella”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “coella”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN