de gatiñas
Appearance
Galician
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Particle + "kitties": "kitty-like".
Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]- crawling; squatting
- Synonym: a gatiñas
- 1853, Xoán Manuel Pintos, A Gaita Gallega, page 158:
- Inda a nai non pon o pé
por adentro do portelo
xa chegan os seus miniños
«a min, a min berberecho» ;
cisca uns poucos pola eira
os rapaces van collé-los
de gatiñas uns con outros
levantandose e caendo.
Dimpois tódo-los da casa
arredor do fol ou cesto
non se afartan de gandire
os birbirichiños frescos;- Mother hasn't even
put her foot ahead the gate
when her children come asking
«to me, to me, cockle»;
she scatters a few by the yards
the kids try to catch them
squatting, ones and others
standing and falling.
Later, everyone at the house,
around the bag or basket,
they don't get tired of devouring
the fresh little cockles;
- Mother hasn't even
References
[edit]- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “de gatiñas”, 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), “de gatiñas”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “de gatiñas”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN