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University of Vigo

English-Galician CLUVI Dictionary, 2nd edition (revised version 2.2)

(Based on the CLUVI Corpus of the University of Vigo)



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- leaden, leader, leadership, leading, leaf, leafless, leaflet, leafy, league, leak, leakage, leaky, lean, leaning, leap, leapfrog, learn, learned, learner


leak


- intransitive verb
- coar

EN The house of Juan Tomás was almost exactly like Kino's house; nearly all the brush houses were alike, and all leaked light and air, so that Juana and Kino, sitting in the corner of the brother's house, could see the leaping flames through the wall.
GL A casa de Juan Tomás era case exactamente igual á casa de Kino. Tódalas casopas eran parecidas e todas coaban a luz e mailo vento, de maneira que Juana e Kino, sentados nun recanto da casa de seu irmán, podía ve-las chamas lapeando a través da parede.
- Fonte: PER (1136)
- filtrarse

EN Water leaks from dams and canals.
GL A auga fíltrase tanto nas presas como nas canalizacións.
- Fonte: C28 (432)


- noun
- burato

EN The skull and the upper bones lay beside it in the thick dust, and in one place, where rain-water had dropped through a leak in the roof, the thing itself had been worn away.
GL A caveira e os ósos superiores descansaban á beira del, sobre a grosa capa de po; e, nun lugar no que a auga da choiva pingara a través dun burato no teito, o esqueleto mesmo estaba erosionado.
- Fonte: TEM (1400)
.....--- to take a leak
- mexar

EN I figured it was some perverty bum that'd sneaked into the school late at night to take a leak or something and then wrote it on the wall.
GL Imaxinei que sería algún pervertido deses que entran na escola pola noite a mexar e a escribir estas cousas.
- Fonte: VIX (6554)