touticeira

Galician

Etymology

From toutizo (“head; clod”), from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia, from Proto-Indo-European *tewtéh₂ (“people, nation; heap?”), from Proto-Indo-European *tewh₂- (“to swell”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /towtiˈθejɾa̝/

Noun

touticeira f (plural touticeiras)

1. hill

Related terms

• touta (“dam”)
• toutizo
• touza

References

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “touticeira”, 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), “touticeira”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega