parar mentes

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese parar mentes (13th century): parar (“to set up”) + mentes (“minds”).

Verb

parar mentes (first-person singular present paro mentes, first-person singular preterite parei mentes, past participle parado mentes)

1. consider, ponder
2. (transitive with en) to think about
   • 1888, Fuliada 6, page 1 (journal):

     A unión e a mutu'axuda fai a forza; pro a unión e a axuda entre os gallegos é imposibre, porque cada un vive com'as lapas drento da própea cónchega, figurandoselle que pra nada ten que parar mentes na sorte do viciño, sendo así qu'o mecanismo social ten tal trabazón qu'o dano e desperfeuto da máis pequena das súas rodas ocasiona a roína e perda de tod'a máquena

     Union and mutual help make force; but union and help among Galicians is impossible, because each one of us lives as the limpets inside its own shell, figuring we shouldn't worry about the neighbour's fate at all; as such, the social mechanism is so stuck that the damage and flaw of the smallest of its gears causes the ruin and loss of the whole machine

References

• “mentes” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “mentes” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “parar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “parar mentes” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.