esculcar

Galician

From esculca (“observation, inquiry”), from local High Middle Ages Medieval Latin sculca (“watchtower”), from Proto-Germanic *skulkan. Cognate of English skulk (“to hide”) and of Norwegian Nynorsk skulke (“to play truant”).

esculcar (first-person singular present esculco, first-person singular preterite esculquei, past participle esculcado)

(transitive) to watch, to observe, to spy
- 1370, Ramón Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, page 235:
  Et coydou que era esculca que vĩjña esculcar sua terra, ca Peleus ben sabía que entre elles et troyãos auj́a grã desamor.
  And he thought that he was a spy which has come to investigate their country, because Peleus knew well that in between them and the Trojans there was a large enmity
(intransitive) to inquiry, to research

Conjugation of esculcar (c-qu alternation)

Reintegrated conjugation of esculcar (c-qu alternation) (See Appendix:Reintegrationism)

	Singular			Plural
	First-person (eu)	Second-person (ti / tu)	Third-person (ele / ela / você)	First-person (nós)	Second-person (vós)	Third-person (eles / elas / vocês)
Infinitive
Impersonal	esculcar
Personal	esculcar	esculcares	esculcar	esculcarmos	esculcardes	esculcarem
Gerund
	esculcando
Past participle
Masculine	esculcado			esculcados
Feminine	esculcada			esculcadas
Indicative
Present	esculco	esculcas	esculca	esculcamos	esculcades, esculcais	esculcam
Imperfect	esculcava	esculcavas	esculcava	esculcávamos	esculcávades, esculcáveis, esculcávais¹	esculcavam
Preterite	esculquei	esculcaste, esculcache¹	esculcou	esculcamos	esculcastes	esculcárom, esculcaram
Pluperfect	esculcara	esculcaras	esculcara	esculcáramos	esculcárades, esculcáreis, esculcárais¹	esculcaram
Future	esculcarei	esculcarás	esculcará	esculcaremos	esculcaredes, esculcareis	esculcarám, esculcarão
Conditional	esculcaria	esculcarias	esculcaria	esculcaríamos	esculcaríades, esculcaríeis, esculcaríais¹	esculcariam
Subjunctive
Present	esculque	esculques	esculque	esculquemos	esculquedes, esculqueis	esculquem
Imperfect	esculcasse	esculcasses	esculcasse	esculcássemos	esculcássedes, esculcásseis	esculcassem
Future	esculcar	esculcares	esculcar	esculcarmos	esculcardes	esculcarem
Imperative
Affirmative		esculca	esculque	esculquemos	esculcade, esculcai	esculquem
Negative (nom)		nom esculques	nom esculque	nom esculquemos	nom esculquedes, nom esculqueis	nom esculquem

¹Less recommended.

Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “esculcar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “esculcar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
“esculcar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024
Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “esculcar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “esculca”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

esculcar (first-person singular present esculco, first-person singular preterite esculqué, past participle esculcado)

Conjugation of esculcar (c-qu alternation) (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)

¹Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language.
²Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.