fouciña

Galician

Alternative forms

• foucía (NE Galicia)

Etymology

From fouciño.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fowˈθiɲa̝/, (western) /fowˈsiɲa̝/

Noun

fouciña f (plural fouciñas)

1. a toothed sickle
2. a stronger sickle used to reap wheat, rye, barley
   • 1474, Antonio López Ferreiro, editor, Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática, Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 66:

     tres fouçiñas, e dous fouçiños, e hun legon, e hun sacho, e hun escoupere, e hua eyxola grande, e hua serra de mao, e outra eyxola de peto, e tres fouçes, e duas choquas

     three toothed sickles, and two sickles, a hoe, a mattock, a chisel, a large axe, a handsaw, a hatchet, three long sickles, and two cowbells

Related terms

• fouce
• fouciño

References

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