amasar

From Old Galician-Portuguese amassar (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from a- +‎ masa (“dough”). Cognate with Portuguese amassar and Spanish amasar.

• IPA^(key): [a.ma.ˈsaɾ]

amasar (first-person singular present amaso, first-person singular preterite amasei, past participle amasado)

1. to knead

   Synonym: gramar

2. to mix

   Synonym: mesturar

   • 1409, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Tratado de Albeitaria, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 143:

     o que mays forte he de todos estos he o poo do rrosalgar amasado con seiua dome

     the strongest of them all is realgar power mixed with human saliva

• “amassar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “amasa” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “amasar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “amasar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “amasar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
• “amasar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From a- +‎ masa (“dough”) +‎ -ar.

• IPA^(key): /amaˈsaɾ/ [a.maˈsaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: a‧ma‧sar

amasar (first-person singular present amaso, first-person singular preterite amasé, past participle amasado)

1. to knead

   Synonyms: masar, heñir, sobar

2. (of a cat) to knead
3. to amass (accumulate)

• “amasar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014