poial
Galician
Alternative forms
- pial
Etymology
14th century. From poio (“platform”) + -al.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpojal/
Noun
poial m (plural poiais)
- stone bench annexed to a house
- Synonym: poio
- sill, windowsill
- Synonyms: peitoril, poio
- block; perpend stone
- 1370, Ramón Lorenzo (ed.), Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 231:
- Et as rruas erã moy grãdes, de hũa parte et da outra, et erã feytas per grande engeño, et erã de suso cubertas de bóueda, et juso erã estradas per poyaes de boa pedra laurada
- And the streets were wide, in one side and the other, and were made with great ingenuity, and they were vaulted in the ceiling, and down they were paved with blocks of good worked stone
- Et as rruas erã moy grãdes, de hũa parte et da outra, et erã feytas per grande engeño, et erã de suso cubertas de bóueda, et juso erã estradas per poyaes de boa pedra laurada
- Synonym: perpiaño
- 1370, Ramón Lorenzo (ed.), Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 231:
- stone platform designed to rest loads along a way
- Synonym: poio
Related terms
- poio
References
- “poyal” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
- “poya” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
- “poial” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
- “poial” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “poial” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.