escoitar
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Galician
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Galician-Portuguese escuitar, ascuitar, ascoitar, from Latin ascultāre. Compare Portuguese escutar.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]escoitar (first-person singular present escoito, first-person singular preterite escoitei, past participle escoitado)
- to listen, to pay attention
- 1697, Iván Antonio Torrado, Fiestas Minervales, page 53:
- Fala o corvo, escoiten todos: Eu veño con asas negras Cortando os ventos de lonxe
- The crow speaks, "everybody, listen to me: I've come with black wings cutting the wind from far away"
- 1822, anonymous author, A Parola Polêteca:
- En escoitalo, señor tio Calacú, xà o peléxo do meu corpo tembra. Sei que á tanta agua que acarrexóu amolentoulle os miolos, é por eso louquéa
- While listening to you, my sir uncle Pumpkin, my body's skin trembles. Perhaps the much water you have carried softened you brain, and therefore you are going insane
- to listen while hidden
- quen escoita, mal de si ouza (proverb)
- he/she who skulks should hear bad thing about himself/herself
- quen escoita, mal de si ouza (proverb)
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of escoitar
Reintegrated conjugation of escoitar (See Appendix:Reintegrationism)
1Less recommended.
References
[edit]- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “ascoit”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “escoitar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “escoitar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega (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), “escoitar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “escoitar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN