guedella

Galician

Attested since the 13th century. Probably from Latin viticula, diminutive of vītis (“vine”), under the influence of a descendant of Proto-Germanic *wiþiz (“cord, rope, thong”). Cognate with Portuguese guedelha and Spanish guedeja.

guedella f (plural guedellas)

lock (a tuft or length of hair)
Synonym: crecha
- 1295, R. Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F., page 660:
  cõ duzentos caualeyros negros com̃o ela et todos trosquiados, senõ senllas guedellas que tragiã ençima das cabeças
  with two hundred knights, black as herself, all of them shaved except for a pair of locks that they brought in the top of their heads
shag (rough, massed hair)
Synonym: greña
(figurative, in the plural) mane
Synonym: greña

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