garabullo

Galician

Alternative forms

  • gharabullo, carabullo, crabullo, grabullo

Etymology

From a substrate language, perhaps from the same origin that carba and carballo; possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kr̥-wós (compare Latin curvus, "bent").[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡaɾaˈβuʎo̝/

Noun

garabullo m (plural garabullos)

  1. a small twig; a piece of brushwood
    Synonyms: cando, garabato, garabito, garabizo, guizo

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “garabato”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos