ovelleiro

• ovelheiro (reintegrationist)

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese ovelleiro. By surface analysis, ovella +‎ -eiro. Compare Portuguese ovelheiro, Spanish ovejero.

• IPA^(key): /obeˈɟejɾo/ [o.β̞eˈɟej.ɾʊ]
• Rhymes: -ejɾo
• Syllabification: o‧ve‧llei‧ro

ovelleiro m (plural ovelleiros, feminine ovelleira, feminine plural ovelleiras)

1. shepherd

ovelleiro (feminine ovelleira, masculine plural ovelleiros, feminine plural ovelleiras)

1. related to sheep

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “ovelleiro”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “o.elle.ro”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “ovelleiro”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (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), “ovelleiro”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “ovelleiro”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
• “ovelleiro”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025