porfillar

• porfilhar (reintegrationist)
• aporfillar, profillar

Attested since circa 1300. From the compound por (“for”) +‎ fillo (“son”). Compare Portuguese perfilhar and Spanish prohijar.

• IPA^(key): [poɾfiˈʎaɾ]

porfillar (first-person singular present porfillo, first-person singular preterite porfillei, past participle porfillado)

1. (transitive) to adopt, affiliate

   Synonyms: adoptar, afillar

   • 1300, R. Martínez López, editor, General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV, Oviedo: Publicacións de Archivum, page 167:

     cõmo dito he et Abraã et Sarra nõ aviam fillo nẽgum, et porfillou Abraã a Loth, seu [sobriño]

     as it has been said, Abraham and Sarah have no child, and so Abraham affiliated Lot, his nephew

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “porfillar”, 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), “rfill”, 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), “porfillar”, 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), “porfillar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “porfillar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
• “porfillar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025