molete
Galician
editEtymology
editAttested since 1707. From Old French pain mollet (“soft bread”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editmolete m (plural moletes)
- Galician muffin wheat bread
- 1707, Salvador Francisco Roel, Entremés ao real e feliz parto da nosa raíña:
- Christobo:
Eu cortarey o molete.
Cathalina:
Tomà vos essa rigeyfa,
porque tamen e pantrigo.- Christobo:
"I'll cut the muffin"
Cathalina:
"Take that loaf,
because it is also wheat bread"
- Christobo:
References
edit- “molete” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “molete” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “molete” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Spanish
editVerb
editmolete
- second-person singular voseo imperative of moler combined with te