Reconstruction:Old Galician-Portuguese/migalla

This Old Galician-Portuguese entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Old Galician-Portuguese

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Etymology

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From Iberian Vulgar Latin *mīcācula, from Latin mīca (crumb) + -culus (diminutive suffix). By surface analysis, miga (crumb) +‎ -alla (diminutive suffix). Compare Spanish migaja.

Noun

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*migalla f (plural *migallas)

  1. crumb (small piece which breaks off from baked food)

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Galician: migalla
  • Portuguese: migalha