peza

• IPA^(key): /ˈpeza/

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• Hyphenation: pe‧za

peza (accusative singular pezan, plural pezaj, accusative plural pezajn)

1. heavy, onerous, weighty

• malpeza

• pezega

• pezo

Attested in local medieval documents as peza (969); from Old Galician-Portuguese peça, from Vulgar Latin *pettia, probably from Gaulish, from Proto-Celtic *kʷezdis.[1] Compare French pièce, Portuguese peça, Spanish pieza, Italian pezza, Welsh peth, Irish cuid.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɛθa̝/, (western) /ˈpɛsa̝/

peza f (plural pezas)

1. piece, fragment, part, component of a larger or composite object
2. a piece of land
   • 1278, Emilio Duro Peña, editor, El Monasterio de San Esteban de Ribas de Sil, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F., page 290:

     una leyra con una peça de monte

     a farmland patch with a piece of uncultivated land

3. subset; group
   • 1441, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 272:

     que desta dita çibdade avían partido Pero Dias de Cadorna e Martín Sánches, abade da Triindade da dita çibdade, con çerta gente de cavalo e de pe, pera Milmanda, sobre rasón de çerto insulto que ena dita villa de Millmanda avían feyto Martín de Castro, con peça de gente do señorío de Purtogal

     that from this city [Ourense] had departed Pedro Diaz de Cadorna and Martín Sánchez, abbot of the Trinity of said city, with some mounted and unmounted people, to Milmanda, because of a certain insult that in said town of Milmanda had done Martín de Castro with a group of people of the realm of Portugal

4. game piece
5. a piece leather used in shoemaking
6. latrine
7. net
8. each one of the fixed periods of time allotted for the use of a mill

• despezar
• empezar
• empezo

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

From Proto-Finnic *pesä.

peza

1. nest

From Proto-Finnic *pesä.

peza

1. nest
2. lair, den

• grähkänpeza
• hijamanpeza
• ilopeza
• mezipeza
• mezjaižpeza
• raudpeza
• unipeza
• pezakund

• Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “берлога, гнездо, логово”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎, Petrozavodsk: Periodika