choia

Borrowed from Old French choe (“chough”),[1] from Proto-West Germanic *kahu (“jackdaw, crow”), from Proto-Indo-European *gewH- (“to crow, caw, shout”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃɔja̝/

choia f (plural choias)

1. chough
   • 1555, Hernán Núñez, Refranes o proverbios en romance:

     Cregos, frades, pegas e choyas, do a demo tas quatro joyas (proverb)

     Priests, friars, magpies and choughs, I send to hell these four jewels

• “choia” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “choia” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “choia” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

choia

1. inflection of choer:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative
2. inflection of choiar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative