aloumiñar

Either from Old Occitan lauza amia (“praise the girlfriend”),[1] or rather from Late Latin laudemia (compare Middle Portuguese louvaminhar, Galician loar and Portuguese louvar, and Old French losenge).[2][3]

• IPA^(key): /alowmiˈɲaɾ/

aloumiñar (first-person singular present aloumiño, first-person singular preterite aloumiñei, past participle aloumiñado)

1. to flatter; to praise
   • c1300, R. Martínez López (ed.), General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV. Oviedo: Publicacións de Archivum, page 250:

     Esta Yo, filla del rrey Ynaco, seendo ẽno rreyno de seu padre de Argos de Greçia, andaua moytas vezes de hũas partes pera outras [perlo] rreyno sem toda guarda; et hũ dia [...] et vioa el rrey Jupiter, et pagouse dela, et falou lle, et começou dea lóómjnar em suas palauras

     This Io, daughter of king Inachus, being in the kingdom of his father of Argos in Greece, she used to go unescorted around the realm; and a day [...] she was seen by king Jupiter, and he liked her, and talked to her, and he began to praise her in his words

   Synonym: afagar

2. to cherish
   • 1775, María Francisca Isla y Losada, Romance:

     Ôu mèu Crego? Seica qués,

     que eu vote a lengoa â pastàr?

     Catao ben, e despois non

     che pese, ò que ágora fás.

     Se contra toda concencia

     pensache de min tàn màl,

     e estou quixòsa, ¿por que

     non me has ti de aloumiñar?

     Oh, my clergyman? Perchance you want

     that I let my tongue free range?

     Watch it carefully, or either don't you later

     regret what you do now.

     If against all conscience

     You thought so badly of me

     And I'm cranky, why

     wouldn't you cherish me?

3. to fondle, caress, cuddle

   Synonyms: acariciar, afagar

4. to pet

   Synonym: acariciar

5. to appease
   • 1807, anonymous, Diálogo dos esterqueiros:

     Amijo, encaixame un Berro

     que me deixou aturdido,

     quixeno aloumiñar,

     cada vez se enfadou mais,

     Pal, he gave a shout

     that left me bewildered,

     I wanted to appease him,

     more and more he grew angry

• aloumiño
• aloumiñeiro
• loar

• “alouminno” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “lóóm” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “aloumiño” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “aloumiñar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “aloumiñar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.