algunha cousa

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese algũa cousa. Compare Portuguese alguma coisa, Spanish alguna cosa.

Pronoun

algunha cousa

  1. something, anything
    • 1775, María Francisca Isla y Losada, Romance:
      Dime algùnha còusa dòce
      como habes doito, é catá,
      que si así no no fazèdes,
      me escatìmo, é velo hàs.
      Ven sabedes, vaiche bòa!
      como estas cousas se fàn,
      è madia tendes, senon
      eu êime de encabuxar.
      Tell me something sweet
      As you use to, but beware,
      if you don't do it like that
      I'll take offence, you'll see.
      You know well, it could not be otherwise!
      how these things are done,
      no doubt about it or else
      I'll go mad.

References
  • “algũa cousa” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
  • “algunha cousa” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
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