chourizo

Galician
Chourizos
Chourizos caseiros artesáns ("homemade artisanal chorizo") for sale, at a fair

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese souriço, of uncertain origin. Compare Portuguese chouriço. The Spanish chorizo is borrowed either from Galician or Portuguese.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [t͡ʃowˈɾiθo̝], (western) [t͡ʃowˈɾiso̝]

Noun

chourizo m (plural chourizos)

  1. chorizo (local cured and spiced sausage)
    • before 1251, Fernão Garcia Esgaravunha, Esta ama, cuj'é Joam Coelho:
      Nom acharedes em toda Castela / [...] / melhor ventrulho nem melhor morcela / do que a ama com sa mão faz; / e al faz bem, como diz seu marido: / faz bom souriç'e lava bem transido
      You won't find in all of Castille a better ventrulho [local speciality] nor a better morcela [black pudding] of what this lady elaborates with her hands; and the rest she also does it well, as her husband says, she elaborates good chorizo and she washes the sick
    • 1746, Martín Sarmiento, Coloquio de 24 gallegos rústicos:
      estaban os bufetes cheos de lenguas, chourizos, perniles, codelos; de lacós, cachuchas, fociños de cerdo
      the buffets abounded with tongues, chourizos, hams, knucles; with shoulders, heads, snouts of pork

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