esculca
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Galician
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From local Late Latin sculca (“watchtower”), from Proto-Germanic. Cognate of English skulk (“to hide”) and of Norwegian Nynorsk skulke (“to play truant”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]esculca f (plural esculcas)
- inquiry
- 1853, Camilo Álvarez de Castro, [Carta a Rosalía de Castro]:
- vendo aí tantos homes de testa, capaces d'abranguer moito e ben, que puderan facer esculcas e recoller as cantigas i os contos de cada eido
- seeing so many intelligent, capable men who could undertake a lot ably, who could make enquiries and recollect the songs and the tales of every place [of Galicia]
- report
- 1457, Fernando Tato, editor, Libro de Notas de Álvaro Perez, page 188:
- e achara a Johán Rramallo [...] que leuaua hũu ljmoeyro çebtý que avía arrĩcado da orta [...] e que Afonso Rrodriges Vimyeiro dera a esculca del a seu dono
- and that he found Xoán Ramallo [...] who took away a lemon tree that he had pulled out from the garden [...] and that Afonso Rodríguez Vimieiro has given a report about him to its proprietor
- (archaic) spy
- 1370, Ramón Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, page 235:
- Et coydou que era esculca que vĩjña esculcar sua terra, ca Peleus ben sabía que entre elles et troyãos auj́a grã desamor.
- And he thought that he was a spy which has come to investigate their country, because Peleus knew well that in between them and the Trojans there was a large enmity
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “esculca” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
- “esculc” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “esculca” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “esculca” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “esculca” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Etymology 2
[edit]Verb
[edit]esculca
- inflection of esculcar:
Spanish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Noun
[edit]esculca f (plural esculcas)
Etymology 2
[edit]Verb
[edit]esculca
- inflection of esculcar:
Further reading
[edit]- “esculca”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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