choia

Galician

choia

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old French choe (“chough”), from Proto-West Germanic *kahu (“jackdaw, crow”), from Proto-Indo-European *gewH- (“to crow, caw, shout”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃɔja̝/

Noun

choia f (plural choias)

1. chough
   • 1555, Hernán Núñez, Refranes o proverbios en romance:

     Cregos, frades, pegas e choyas, do a demo tas quatro joyas (proverb)

     Priests, friars, magpies and choughs, I send to hell these four jewels

Further reading

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “choia”, 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), “choia”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “choia”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Etymology 2

Verb

choia

1. inflection of choer:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative
2. inflection of choiar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative