teiga

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Noun

teiga

1. paddle

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese teeyga, from Andalusian Arabic تَعْلِيقَة (taʕlíqa, “hanging thing”). Doublet of taleiga and of tega; cognate with Spanish talega.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛjɣa̝/

Noun

teiga f (plural teigas)

1. (dated) basket
2. (historical units of measure) a unit of dry measure, especially for grain (¹⁄₁₆ moio)

Derived terms

• ateigar
• ateigado

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “teeiga”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “teiga” 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), “teiga”, 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), “teiga”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “teiga”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN