chuvia

• choiva

From Old Galician-Portuguese chuvia, from Latin pluvia (“rain”), from Proto-Indo-European *plew- (“to wash”). Akin to Portuguese chuva.

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃuβja̝/

chuvia f (plural chuvias)

1. rain

• chuvasco
• chuvasqueiro
• chuvia de meteoros
• chuvieira
• chuviñar
• chuvioso
• chuvisca
• chuviscar

• chover

• “chuvia” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “chuvia” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “chuvia” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “chuvia” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “chuvia” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

• lluvia

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

chuvia f (plural chuvias)

1. rain

• AEDLL
• Pallabreiru Llïonés

• chovia

Inherited from Latin pluvia (“rain”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃu.βja/

chuvia f

1. rain
   • 13th century CE, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, E codex, cantiga 143 (facsimile):

     Enton a uirgen as nuueſabrir / fez ⁊ delas tan g[ra]n chuuia ſayr / que quantos chorauã fezo ryr / ⁊ yr con grand alegria.

     Then the Virgin made the clouds open and such great rain to issue from them that it caused all who were weeping to laugh and go their way happily.

• chover

• Galician: chuvia, choiva
• Portuguese: chuva (see there for further descendants)