aloumiñar

Galician

Etymology

Either from Old Occitan lauza amia (“praise the girlfriend”),^[1] or rather from Late Latin laudemia (compare Middle Portuguese louvaminhar, Galician loar and Portuguese louvar, and Old French losenge).^[2]^[3]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /alowmiˈɲaɾ/

Verb

aloumiñar (first-person singular present aloumiño, first-person singular preterite aloumiñei, past participle aloumiñado)

to flatter; to praise
Synonym: afagar
- c. 1300, R. Martínez López, editor, General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV, Oviedo: Publicacións de Archivum, page 250:
  Esta Yo, filla del rrey Ynaco, seendo ẽno rreyno de seu padre de Argos de Greçia, andaua moytas vezes de hũas partes pera outras [perlo] rreyno sem toda guarda; et hũ dia [...] et vioa el rrey Jupiter, et pagouse dela, et falou lle, et começou dea lóómjnar em suas palauras
  This Io, daughter of king Inachus, being in the kingdom of his father of Argos in Greece, she used to go unescorted around the realm; and a day [...] she was seen by king Jupiter, and he liked her, and talked to her, and he began to praise her in his words
to cherish
- 1775, María Francisca Isla y Losada, Romance:
  Ôu mèu Crego? Seica qués,
  que eu vote a lengoa â pastàr?
  Catao ben, e despois non
  che pese, ò que ágora fás.
  Se contra toda concencia
  pensache de min tàn màl,
  e estou quixòsa, ¿por que
  non me has ti de aloumiñar?
  Oh, my clergyman? Perchance you want
  that I let my tongue free range?
  Watch it carefully, or either don't you later
  regret what you do now.
  If against all conscience
  You thought so badly of me
  And I'm cranky, why
  wouldn't you cherish me?
to fondle, caress, cuddle
Synonyms: acariciar, afagar
to pet
Synonym: acariciar
to appease
- 1807, anonymous author, Diálogo dos esterqueiros:
  Amijo, encaixame un Berro
  que me deixou aturdido,
  quixeno aloumiñar,
  cada vez se enfadou mais,
  Pal, he gave a shout
  that left me bewildered,
  I wanted to appease him,
  more and more he grew angry

Conjugation

Conjugation of aloumiñar

	Singular			Plural
	First-person (eu)	Second-person (ti)	Third-person (el / ela / Vde.)	First-person (nós)	Second-person (vós)	Third-person (eles / elas / Vdes.)
Infinitive
Impersonal	aloumiñar
Personal	aloumiñar	aloumiñares	aloumiñar	aloumiñarmos	aloumiñardes	aloumiñaren
Gerund
	aloumiñando
Past participle
Masculine	aloumiñado			aloumiñados
Feminine	aloumiñada			aloumiñadas
Indicative
Present	aloumiño	aloumiñas	aloumiña	aloumiñamos	aloumiñades	aloumiñan
Imperfect	aloumiñaba	aloumiñabas	aloumiñaba	aloumiñabamos	aloumiñabades	aloumiñaban
Preterite	aloumiñei	aloumiñaches	aloumiñou	aloumiñamos	aloumiñastes	aloumiñaron
Pluperfect	aloumiñara	aloumiñaras	aloumiñara	aloumiñaramos	aloumiñarades	aloumiñaran
Future	aloumiñarei	aloumiñarás	aloumiñará	aloumiñaremos	aloumiñaredes	aloumiñarán
Conditional	aloumiñaría	aloumiñarías	aloumiñaría	aloumiñariamos	aloumiñariades	aloumiñarían
Subjunctive
Present	aloumiñe	aloumiñes	aloumiñe	aloumiñemos	aloumiñedes	aloumiñen
Imperfect	aloumiñase	aloumiñases	aloumiñase	aloumiñásemos	aloumiñásedes	aloumiñasen
Future	aloumiñar	aloumiñares	aloumiñar	aloumiñarmos	aloumiñardes	aloumiñaren
Imperative
Affirmative		aloumiña	aloumiñe	aloumiñemos	aloumiñade	aloumiñen
Negative (non)		non aloumiñes	non aloumiñe	non aloumiñemos	non aloumiñedes	non aloumiñen

Related terms

References

“alouminno” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “lóóm”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
“aloumiño” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “aloumiñar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “aloumiñar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

^ Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983–1991) “loar”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
^ Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983–1991) “lisonja”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
^ Pensado, José Luis, Messner, Dieter (2003) “lumiñar”, in Bachiller Olea: Vocabulos gallegos escuros: lo que quieren decir (Cadernos de Lingua: anexos; 7)‎^[1], A Coruña: Real Academia Galega / Galaxia, →ISBN.

[1] Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983–1991) “loar”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

[2] Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983–1991) “lisonja”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

[3] Pensado, José Luis, Messner, Dieter (2003) “lumiñar”, in Bachiller Olea: Vocabulos gallegos escuros: lo que quieren decir (Cadernos de Lingua: anexos; 7)‎^[1], A Coruña: Real Academia Galega / Galaxia, →ISBN.

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