esfamear

• esfamiar

From es- + fame (“hunger”) + -ear.

• IPA^(key): /esfameˈaɾ/

esfamear (first-person singular present esfameo, first-person singular preterite esfameei, past participle esfameado)
esfamear (first-person singular present esfameio, first-person singular preterite esfameei, past participle esfameado, reintegrationist norm)

1. to be very hungry
2. to starve
   • 1887, Alberto Garcia Ferreiro, Volvoretas:

     qu'á beira dos ricos consinte que haxa nas chouzas perdidas aló nas montañas, us nenos que tremen, e us vellos qu'esfamian

     that besides the rich people, they allow that in the huts up in the mountains, there are children shaking with cold, and old people that starve

• “esfamear” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “esfamear”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, since 2012
• “esfamear” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “esfameado” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.