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

   Synonym: afagar

   • c. 1300, R. Martínez López, editor, 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

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 author, 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.
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “lóóm”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• “aloumiño” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “aloumiñar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “aloumiñar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN