escoitar

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Galician

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Etymology

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From Old Galician-Portuguese escuitar, ascuitar, ascoitar, from Latin ascultāre. Compare Portuguese escutar.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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escoitar (first-person singular present escoito, first-person singular preterite escoitei, past participle escoitado)

  1. 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
  2. to listen while hidden
    quen escoita, mal de si ouza (proverb)
    he/she who skulks should hear bad thing about himself/herself

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