trollo

• trolho (reintegrationist)

• IPA^(key): [ˈtɾoʎʊ]

Unknown.

trollo m (plural trollos)

1. bog, mire, quagmire

   Synonyms: braña, lameiro

2. mud, silt, sludge

   Synonym: lama

   • 1861, Atonio Fernández Morales, Ensayos poéticos en dialecto berciano:

     mal demo do inferno a parar neste lugar, onde, pra andar, sendo inverno, ou no trollo hai que nadar Ou é menester c'algúa bruxa pauto ou trato ter pra qu'enseñe a cencia súa, ou ben, pra ir fóra, poñer en cada pé unha falúa

     (Not even a) bad demon from hell will come to this place where, for walking in the winter, one must swim in the mud; or either it is precise to make some pact with a witch, for her to teach us her science; or, for going out, to put a felucca in each foot

3. potato field
4. (figurative) untidy place

• atrollar
• trolleiro
• Trollos

 

Probably from Latin trullium, a derivative of trulla (“small ladle or scoop”). Cognate with Portuguese trolha and Spanish trulla. Doublet of truel, which was borrowed from French.^[1]

• trullo

trollo m (plural trollos)

1. tool composed of a shaft and a semicircular blade, used by bakers to distribute and clean ashes and embers

   Synonym: rodo

2. a similar tool, used to smooth or level the ground
3. shaft

• atrollar
• trollar
• trolleiro

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “trollo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega (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), “trollo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “trollo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “trullo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

trollo

1. first-person singular present indicative of trollare

trollo

1. first-person singular present indicative of trollar