amosegar

Galician

Alternative forms

  • amoregar, amoscar, amoxegar, amozcar, anozcar, moxegar

Etymology

From a- + Latin morsicāre.[1] Compare Portuguese mossegar, Spanish moscar.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /amoseˈɣaɾ/

Verb

amosegar (first-person singular present amosego, first-person singular preterite amoseguei, past participle amosegado)

  1. to slightly cut or bite a chestnut before roasting or cooking it
  2. to nibble
    Synonyms: adentar, amordicar, ataniscar
  3. to pinch

Conjugation

Derived terms

  • amósega

References

  • amosegado” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • amosegar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • amosegar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • amosegar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
  • amosegar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
  1. Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983–1991) “morder”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
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