touza

Galician

Etymology 1

From Medieval Galician touça, from a substrate language *touttia, from Proto-Indo-European *tewh₂- (“to swell”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtowθa̝/, (western) /ˈtowsa̝/

Noun

touza f (plural touzas)

1. enclosed uncultivated land, usually used as a tree farm
   • 1325, Miguel Romaní Martínez, La colección diplomática de Santa María de Oseira (1025-1310). Santiago: Tórculo Edicións, 3, p. 66:

     en a touça que jaz entre as leyras ambas que tem Domingo Eanes

     in the uncultivated lands which lie in between both patchs of farmaland belonging to Domingo Eanes

2. stump
3. tuft
4. boulder
5. grove

Derived terms

• touceira (“enclosed woodland”)
• Touceda
• Toucedo
• Touceira
• Touceiro
• Toucido
• Touciñas
• Touzal
• Touzas
• touzo
• Touzón
• Touzosas

References

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “touça”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “touza”, 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), “touza”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “touza”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Etymology 2

Verb

touza

1. inflection of touzar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative