esgazar
Galician
Etymology
Unknown. From former esguaçar (att. 1372). Cognate with Asturian esguazar, Spanish desguazar, Italian sguazzare.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /esɣaˈθaɾ/
Verb
esgazar (first-person singular present esgazo, first-person singular preterite esgacei, past participle esgazado)
- to break off; to tear off
- 1372, E. Duro Peña, editor, El Monasterio de San Esteban de Ribas de Sil, Ourense: Instituto Padre Feijóo, page 322:
- por quanto a dita carta do dito sennor rey era escripta en papel e se temía de esguaçar ou derramar ou mollar
- because this aforementioned charter of our lord the king is written in paper, and he fear to tear, waste, or wet it
- 1845, Francisco Añón, Recordos da infancia:
- E d’os castaños esgazando as pòlas;
Abranguía aromáticos cencenos.- And from the chestnut trees, tearing off the branches,
she picked aromatic tassels.
- And from the chestnut trees, tearing off the branches,
Conjugation
References
- “esguaçar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
- “esguaçar” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
- “esgazar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “esgazar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “esgazar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
- Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983–1991) “esguazar”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
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