devalar

From de- + val (“valley”) + -ar. Compare Catalan davallar (“to descend”), from avall (“downwards”), from a- (“to”) +‎ vall (“valley”).[1]

• IPA^(key): /deβaˈlaɾ/

devalar (first-person singular present devalo, first-person singular preterite devalei, past participle devalado)

1. (intransitive) to recede a flood
2. (intransitive) to ebb, to wane (the moon or the tyde)
   • 1853, Juan Manuel Pintos, A gaita gallega, page 155:

     E de ver alá en Cambados enfrente á terra do Meco cando devala a marea tanto chan que queda en seco

     Seeing there in Cambados, in front of the land of the Meco, when the tyde recedes, so much land that is drained out

• baixar, minguar

• devalo (“ebb, waning moon”)

• “devalar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “devalar” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
• “devalar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “devalar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
• “devalar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.