bouta

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bu.ta/

Verb

bouta

1. third-person singular past historic of bouter

Anagrams

• about, tabou

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Galician

Etymology

From Celtic, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷew- (“excrement; dung”) + the suffix *-to-; Compare German Kot (“feces”), Welsh budr (“filthy”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈbowta̝/

Noun

bouta f (plural boutas)

1. Mixture of cattle manure and water once used as sealant.
2. The filth formed in a millstone due to the humidity of the grain.

Derived terms

• emboutar (“to get dirty; to jam”)

References

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “bouta”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
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• “bouta” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.