somonte
Appearance
Galician
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]somonte m (plural somontes)
- a quality of coarse cloth
- 1845, Vicente Turnes, Diálogo entre Silvestre Cajaraville e Domingo Magariños:
- Estóu debendo na tenda
A chamarra que hoje trago
E o somonte dos calzós
Que ja estan feitos farrapos;- I owe to the shop
the coat I wear today
and the cloth of the pants,
which are already in tatters
- I owe to the shop
References
[edit]- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “somonte”, 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), “somonte”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega