malvar
Galician
editEtymology
editPerhaps from mal (“bad”). Alternatively, perhaps from Proto-Germanic *balwōną (“to worsen, spoil, damage”), with the initial b assimilated to mal (“bad”). Compare Middle Low German balwen (“to grow worse, worsen, suffer damage”).
Pronunciation
editVerb
editmalvar (first-person singular present malvo, first-person singular preterite malvei, past participle malvado)
- (pronominal) to worsen; to spoil
- 1888, Novo Galiciano, 4 (journal):
- Non che paresce, leutor, como me paresce a min, e lles paresce a moitos, que a empresa do noso alumbrado eléutrico vaise malvando moito, dandonos unha lus, que nin é aquela lus pormetida, nin moito menos a que serviu de proba nos pormeiros días da istalación? Os comercios que teñen istalaciós particulares queixanse, queixase o púbrico en xeneral, pro todo esto nada importa
- Don't you, the reader, find -as I and many other find- that the enterprise of our electric lighting is getting worse and worse, giving us a light that is not the light they promised, and absolutely not the one that was used as proof during the fists days of the installation? The shops with private installations complain, as do the general public, but all of these is unimportant
- 1888, Novo Galiciano, 4 (journal):
- (transitive) to spoil; to corrupt
Conjugation
edit Conjugation of malvar
Reintegrated conjugation of malvar (See Appendix:Reintegrationism)
1Less recommended.
References
edit- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “malvar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- “malvar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “malvar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- “malvar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “malvar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN