bídalo

Galician

bídalos, Abadín, Galicia

Probably from bídaro, from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia, ultimately from Proto-Celtic *betu- (“birch”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷet- (“resin, pitch”).^[1]^[2] The tonic i can be due to the influence of Germanic forms (cf. English birch) during the early Middle Ages.^[3]

Cognate with French bouleau. Compare also the Galician Celtism berro < *berŭro-, French berle < *berŭla. Synonymous with bido, bedulo, and bidueiro.

bídalo m (plural bídalos)

Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “bidalo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “bídalo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “bídalo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

^ Cf. Gonzalo Navaza (2006) Fitotoponimia Galega, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, →ISBN, pages 80-89.
^ Cf. Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “abedul”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
^ José Luis Pensado, Martín Sarmiento (1999) Onomástico etimológico de la lengua gallega‎^[1], Fundación Pedro Barrié de la Maza, →ISBN, pages 41-44