chourizo

Galician

Chourizos

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

Alternative forms

• chouriço (reintegrationist)

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

Related terms

• abesouro
• chourela
• resouro
• souria

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.