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Computational Linguistics Group (SLI), 2005-2018
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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In Galician
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- merit, meritorious, merrily, merriment, merry, merry-go-round, merrymaking, mesh, Mesopotamia, mess, message, messenger, Messiah, messianic, metal, metallic, metalworker, metamorphosis, metaphor


mess


- noun
- lea

EN Suppose I didn't look after the clerks in my office, just let them run things their own way; they'd soon make a nice mess of me and my business.
GL Imaxina que eu non estivese ó tanto dos empregados da miña oficina e permitise que as cousas fosen ó seu aire; farían axiña unha boa lea comigo e co negocio.
- Fonte: ESP (1431)
- envurullo

EN Two meetings of specialists --a third has been set for July 2000-- have so far failed to sort out the mess, or to obtain a firm political commitment from the international community to lay down the law in Davy Jones's locker.
GL Dúas reunións de expertos --unha terceira está prevista para xullo de 2000-- non permitiron por agora resolver este envurullo, nin demostrar unha firme vontade mundial de lexislar no mundo submarino.
- Fonte: C24 (1200)
- desorde

EN Research in Latin America, she says, is "one big mess," pointing to scant resources, facilities and coordination.
GL Para ela, a situación da investigación académica en América Latina é unha xigantesca desorde onde faltan medios, estructuras, coordinación...
- Fonte: C25 (333)


- transitive verb
.....--- to mess up
- escarallar

EN He could really mess a song up.
GL Verdadeiramente podía escarallar unha canción.
- Fonte: VIX (856)