folgo

Catalan

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈfol.ɣu]
IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈfol.ɣo]

Verb

folgo

first-person singular present indicative of folgar

Galician

Etymology 1

14th century. Back-formation from folgar, from Latin follicare (“to blow, breathe”). Cognate with Portuguese fôlego.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈfɔlɣʊ], [ˈfolɣʊ]

Noun

folgo m (plural folgos)

(also in the plural) breath
Synonyms: alento, respiración
- c1350, Kelvin M. Parker (ed.), Historia Troyana. Santiago: Instituto "Padre Sarmiento", page 288:
  Et esmoresçeu en tal maneyra que pouco nẽ moyto nõ suspiraua nẽ saya d'ela folgo.
  And she passed out in such a way that, neither much nor little, she didn't sigh or expel breath
- 1862, Manuel Magariños, Ferrocarril Compostelano:
  Non sei qué xuncras traguía na moleira o Seor Pedro, que o vin no outro onte carreirando, como un neno, e axuntando aos seus veciños, pra que onde ao seu palleiro fosen axiña a agoardá-lo; Eu non sei si un formigueiro de vermes lle boligaban entre os miolos dos sesos, pois semellaba a un doente, pro casi arrincando os pelos de debaixo da monteira, sin ton, nin son, e sin xeito; Eu non sei qué lle proía, eu non sei, si tiña o demo; porque os folgos eran fogos e os ollos dous candeeiros, e a cara toda prigada, amostrando os seus chavellos coa boca de un palmo aberta, babexado o fuciñeiro, parecía un estraloxe, un estraloxe de un vello
  I don't know what damned thing was bringing in his head Mr. Pedro, whom I saw the day before yesterday running around, as a kid, and gathering his neighbours asking them to come swiftly to his barn and wait for him; I don't know if a colony of worms was scampering around the center of his brains, because he looked as a madman, almost pulling out the hair from under the hat, without rhyme of reason, and without care; I don't know what was itching him, I don't know if he was possessed by a demon; because his breath was fire and the eyes two lamps, and the face all folded, showing his fangs with mouth open wide, the snout drooling, he looked as a ravel, an old man's ravel
(also in the plural) stamina
Vai ti, que eu xa non teño folgos para seguir!
You go! I have no stamina left to keep going!

Synonyms: alento, ánimo, azo, forza
life
O gato ten sete folgos
Cats have seven lives

Derived terms

pillar folgos

Related terms

fol
folgar

References

Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “folgo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “folgo”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “folgo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “folgo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “folgo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Etymology 2

Verb

folgo

first-person singular present indicative of folgar

Portuguese

Verb

folgo

first-person singular present indicative of folgar