tueco

Spanish

Etymology

Uncertain, perhaps onomatopoeic. Compare Portuguese toco (“stump”) and Galician toco (“burrow, stump”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtweko/ [ˈt̪we.ko]
• Rhymes: -eko
• Syllabification: tue‧co

Noun

tueco m (plural tuecos)

1. stump; treestump

Derived terms

• tocón

Further reading

• “tueco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10