esgazar
Appearance
Galician
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unknown. From former esguaçar (att. 1372). Cognate with Asturian esguazar, Spanish desguazar, Italian sguazzare.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]esgazar (first-person singular present esgazo, first-person singular preterite esgacei, past participle esgazado)
- to break off; to tear off
- 1372, E. Duro Peña, editor, El Monasterio de San Esteban de Ribas de Sil, Ourense: Instituto Padre Feijóo, page 322:
- por quanto a dita carta do dito sennor rey era escripta en papel e se temía de esguaçar ou derramar ou mollar
- because this aforementioned charter of our lord the king is written in paper, and he fear to tear, waste, or wet it
- 1845, Francisco Añón, Recordos da infancia:
- E d’os castaños esgazando as pòlas;
Abranguía aromáticos cencenos.- And from the chestnut trees, tearing off the branches,
she picked aromatic tassels.
- And from the chestnut trees, tearing off the branches,
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of esgazar (c-z alternation)
References
[edit]- “esguaçar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
- “esguaçar” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “esgazar”, 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), “esgazar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “esgazar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
- ^ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “esguazar”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos