touzo

Galician

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese touço (“launching log”) (13th century, used by the Galician author Lopo Lias), from a substrate language, from Proto-Indo-European *tewh₂- (“to swell”).

Alternative forms

• trouzo

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtowθo̝/, (western) /ˈtowso̝/

Noun

touzo m (plural touzos)

1. stump
2. extreme of the shaft of a watermill
3. (by extension) shaft of a watermill

Derived terms

• Touceda
• Toucedo
• Touceira
• touceira
• Touceiro
• toucelo
• Toucido
• Touciñas
• touza
• Touzal
• Touzas
• Touzón
• Touzosas

 

References

• Ernesto González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “touço”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “touç”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• “touzo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “touzo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “touzo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Etymology 2

Verb

touzo

1. first-person singular present indicative of touzar