chus

See also: CHUs and Chus

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Galician-Portuguese chus, from Latin plūs (“more”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃus/

Adverb

chus

1. (dated) more; very
   • 1305, A. López Ferreiro (ed.), Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática. Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 498:

     et sse esto que eu mando he chus pouco cao quinto de todos meus bees assi movil como rrayz

     and if this that I'm granting is very little compared with a fifth of all of my possessions, chattel as well as real state, then [...]

   Synonym: máis

Derived terms

• Non dicir chus nin mus (“shh!”)

References

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• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “chus”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
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Old Portuguese

FWOTD – 30 October 2012

Etymology

From Latin plūs (“more”), from Old Latin *plous, from Proto-Indo-European *plē-, *pelu- (“many”). Eventually displaced by mais.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃus̺/

Adverb

chus

1. more
   • 13th century CE, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, cantiga 185 (facsimile):

     tres mouroſ q̇ entṙã / chus negroſ q̇ Satanaſ / no Caſtelo os de dentro / os fezeron en caer.

     three Moors who entered / blacker (more black) than Satan / in the Castle, the ones inside / made them fall.

Synonyms

• mais