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Felipe Lorenzo del Río
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  Value Position Position 9 9 Accepted meanings 3879 9 Obtained votes 61 9 Votes by meaning 0.02 20 Inquiries 121982 8 Queries by meaning 31 20 Feed + Pdf

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tesela
  61

From Greek thessers and thessares, four, on the four sides that have the quadrangular pieces of mosaics made by the Romans and Byzantine Greeks from marble plates or other minerals. The tiles that handled the tesselriums and classic musivarios were no more than a square centimeter which required a lot of patience and dedication.

  
funileiro
  37

In Portuguese tinsmith, boilermaker, which works and arranges tin, sheet metal or zinc objects such as showers, candiles, buckets, boilers, oils and almost all objects of the kitchen before. One of the most vivid images of my childhood is that of the tinters in the town square fixing all kinds of pots. The boiler holes that were put in the chimney seals covered them with small copper cones.

  
so, g'sell, so
  39

It is the night cry of the guardians of the tower of the Gothic church of St. George in the medieval German city of Nordlingen. "Everything's fine, mates, everything's fine." So they say from ancient every half hour from 22 to 24 hours, because there is no enemy in sight outside the walls of the old city.

  
guiñarol
  40

Derived from yaws. In Germany he appoints those who make the eye or receive information by winks. The yaw of the rogues of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries always had his eyes wide open.

  
la fila de los mancos
  59

This was called in the last years of the dictatorship and at the beginning of the transition the last row of cinema seats with very poor visibility, but highly sought after by teenage couples of hormones altered to get their hands on. Then with the rise of television and internet many rooms were closing, although it seems that they have been recovering.

  
tararí que te ví
  52

Tararí that I saw you : Or I simply hummed, onomatopoeic sound of the trumpet touch, is a colloquial adverbial locution of denial with some nuance of mockery to indicate that the facts happened against what was expected or will act against what was proposed by another. It therefore indicates non-compliance with what is promised or expected or disbelief. It equates to a non-angry or a "nothing, cute" or a "come already" or a "no, man, no." A different sense of expression indicates unexpected surprise.

  
sosieganiños
  34

Plant our abandoned fields of the resedaceous family, which also call farolilla, gualdilla, gualdón, wild reseda, sesamoide menor ( reseda phyteuma ), whose hardened seeds were used for children's rattles.

  
ser del puño cerrado
  41

Also belonging to the brotherhood of the fist, because the closed fist is an obvious redundancy, it is the same as being stingy, being more grabbed than a chotis, (say the Madridians), being a rácano when sharing material goods with others, being a weigher who does not let go or a hard, do not want to share with anyone. When we go with reeds for our madriles, (how do we miss it!) , you can immediately see who's in the brotherhood. By Guadalajara they usually say that someone is more grabbed than those of Durón next to Budia, (two Alcarreño villages).

  
sentinelés
  61

Unknown language of a strange tribe perhaps from Africa for more than 60 years. 000 years settled on the North Sentinel Island of the Andaman Islands archipelago in the Gulf of Bengal between India and Burma. They have no contact with civilization. In 2018 they shot dead an unwary missionary who approached. Its technical development could correspond to the Neolithic. Looks like they survived the 2004 tsunami.

  
a torrendo
  60

Medieval Castellanization of the Latin expression ad torrendum, to cook under the ash or to twist the bread acimo, without yeast, which they also called sub-incineration or bread to torquendo of Hispanic Jews, of torque, to spin, to turn, to turn. The bread to tower or torquendo resulted in a flattened round cake as there was no fermentation. From here the Christian saying "in the absence of bread, good are cakes".

  
a velorta
  33

Adverbial expression of the pasiegos, used with verbs such as carrying, raising or transporting, alluding to the action of velortear, that is, carrying on the head because of the unevenness in the ground the dried grass once tied with a flexible rod of ash or hazelnel from the meadow to the hut.

  
tabarense
  40

Most common tabarés, of Tábara, zamorano municipality of the easternmost foothills of the Sierra de la Culebra, where the monastery of San Salvador de Tábara was founded in the reign of Alfonso III, last king of Asturias and first of León, in whose scriptorium the Mozarabic codex of the Blessed , which we currently have in the National Historical Archive of Madrid.

  
sentidiño
  66

Galician word of 2019 that carries the common sense of all, the seny say Catalans, sanity in saying and acting, the wisdom to live in harmony with nature and with others, being reasonable having empathy. How much I miss my northwestern land these pandemic months!

  
almadías
  59

Adding to what his colleague García Alberto Enrique says, in the Pyrenees area, are rafts of logs joined with vegetable jars from where in the past the nabateros drove in spring the trunks of the trees cut in the winter to the sawmills. In the Aragonese Pyrenees they also call it armadía and nabata and rai in Catalan. At the spring festivities many villages in this area remember these almade traditions.

  
enredabailes
  58

In Castile and León and especially in rural areas the animator of popular festivals is thus said especially through music and dancing. The pipers of many asturleones villages are true enredabails. The term is also sometimes a derogatory little.

  
abitur
  47

Accreditation degree of having successfully passed the gymnasium in the German education system that trains to enter the university. It is equivalent to passing our PAU, University Access Tests. Abitur exams are oral and written, unlike our PAU. The average grade obtained in both cases is decisive for the student's professional future. The term archaic derives from abiturus, future participle of the Latin verb abeo, exit, pass, become.

  
blinga
  45

Also blingues, in Asturies, thin and flexible sheets of hazel wood, chestnut or other tree that are used in basketry to make baskets. It is also said of anything long and narrow as some minifundist farmland.

  
pelagra
  45

From Italian pelle agra, sour or perhaps rough skin and this from Latin pellis aegra, sick skin. Skin disease with discoloration and roughness especially in areas exposed to the sun with digestive and nervous alterations, caused by the lack or poor digestive absorption of niacin, of the vitamin group B . It has also been called rose sick, Asturian leprosy, Lombardy leprosy, scurvy from the Alps. . .

  
romanche
  60

Romance language, a Latin heritage of the ancient Roman province of Raetia that they also call retorromanche, retorromanic, rheético or grison, which currently speak about 60. 000 people in the mountainous canton of Grisons in Switzerland. It is connected to the Ladina Dolomitica language of the Italian Alps. It fragments into about 5 dialects.

  
eonaviego
  33

Galician-Asturian or Asturian-Galician . As the companion points out it is a linguistic variety within the Galaico-Portuguese that is spoken in the westernmost part of Asturias between the Eo and Navia rivers and the easternmost area of Lugo. On his identity there have been certain disputes between the Royal Galician Academy and the Academy of the Asturian Language. In this region live about 45. 000 people but not everyone talks about this fallacy, let alone write it.

  




       


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