viela

See also: vielä and vielā

Galician

Etymology

Attested since circa 1350. From Via (“way”) +‎ -ela.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [biˈɛlɐ]

Noun

viela f (plural vielas)

(dated) alley (narrow street or passageway)
Synonyms: congostra, quella, ruela
- 1380, M. M. Graña Cid, editor, Las órdenes mendicantes en el obispado de Mondoñedo. El convento de san Martín de Villaoriente (1374-1500), page 171:
  aquela casa con seu saydo en que mora Domingo Turlon et Eluira Afonso, sua muller, que esta en na rua de Sindin; commo departe: da casa en que mora Ferrando Lopes cacheyro; et da outra parte da casa que fuy de Juhan Peyteiro, et da viela que uay para os castros, et da rua Publica
  that house with its garden where Domingo Turlon and his wife Elvira Afonso dwell, which is on the Sindín street; as it goes from the house where Fernando López Cacheiro dwells, and on the other side, by the house which was Xoán Peiteiro's, and by the alley which goes towards the hill-forts, and by the public street
ditch
- 1962, Xaquín Lorenzo, Etnografía:
  Diste xeito loita o montañés contra o frío. A humidade non penetra no interior gracias ó tellado, e a que podería filtrarse por baixo das paredes evitase faguendo d'arredor, pola parte de fóra, uns regos, chamados vielas, que recollen as augas do tellado e as que corren pola terra e léva-nas lonxe
  In this way highlanders fight the cold. Wetness doesn't come inside thanks to the thatched roof, and what could come under the walls is prevented by working all around, in the outside, some ditches called vielas, which take the waters of the roof and the overflow and run them away
skylight

References

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

Latvian

Pronunciation

Audio: (file)

Noun

viela f (4th declension)

(physics, chemistry) matter, substance; material
viela pārdomām ― food for thought

Declension

Declension of viela (4th declension)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	viela	vielas
accusative (akuzatīvs)	vielu	vielas
genitive (ģenitīvs)	vielas	vielu
dative (datīvs)	vielai	vielām
instrumental (instrumentālis)	vielu	vielām
locative (lokatīvs)	vielā	vielās
vocative (vokatīvs)	viela	vielas

Derived terms

Portuguese

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /viˈɛ.lɐ/ [vɪˈɛ.lɐ], (faster pronunciation) /ˈvjɛ.lɐ/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /viˈɛ.la/ [vɪˈɛ.la], (faster pronunciation) /ˈvjɛ.la/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /viˈɛ.lɐ/, (faster pronunciation) /ˈvjɛ.lɐ/
- (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /biˈɛ.lɐ/, (faster pronunciation) /ˈbjɛ.lɐ/

Hyphenation: vi‧e‧la

Etymology 1

From via (“way”) +‎ -ela.

Noun

viela f (plural vielas)

alley (narrow street or passageway)
Synonyms: beco, quelha, ruela, travessa, viela

Derived terms

vielazinha (diminutive)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French vielle (“vielle; hurdy-gurdy”).

Noun

viela f (plural vielas)

(music) vielle (medieval stringed instrument similar to a violin)

Derived terms

viela de roda

Etymology 3

Borrowed from French bielle (“connecting rod”).

Noun

viela f (plural vielas)

an iron piece of a mill wheel