folloa

Old Galician-Portuguese

Alternative forms

  • foloa

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *foliola, diminutive of Latin folium (“leaf”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fo.ˈʎɔ.a/

Noun

folloa f (plural folloas)

  1. (cooking, Old Galician) crepe
    • 1285, Miguel Romaní, editor, La colección diplomática de Santa María de Oseira (1025-1310), volume 2, page 1114:
      tres sartageadas de folloas
      three frying panfuls of crepes
    • 1398, Miguel Romaní, editor, La colección diplomática de Santa María de Oseira (1025-1310), volume 4, page 470:
      huna escudela de foloas de seseenta ovos et pan et vino con elas commo husan os outros nosos homes do couto de Olleiros.
      a tray of crepes made with sixty eggs, and bread and wine as used to give by our other men in the fief of Oleiros

Descendants

  • Galician: filloa
  • Portuguese: filhó

Further reading

  • Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “folloa”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
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