coar

Galician

Etymology

14th century. From Old Galician and Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin cōlāre, present active infinitive of cōlō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /koˈaɾ/

Verb

1. to strain, filter
   • c1350, K. M. Parker (ed.), Historia Troyana. Santiago: Instituto "Padre Sarmiento", p. 293:

     Et dizẽ os sabedores que [todolos] rrios [saem] do mar, et van [per] canos por la terra et por que a agoa sal do mar, vay se coando et adulçãdo quanto mays vay por terra espessa et se mays do mar arreda

     And the people who know say that every river exits from the sea, and goes through channels in the earth by which water comes from the sea, ant it filters and sweetens the more it goes through dense earth and the more it draws away from the sea

Derived terms

• coada
• coadeira
• coador
• escoar

References

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

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Manx

Etymology

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Preposition

coar

1. over

Inflection

	Singular				Plural
Person	1st	2nd	3rd m.	3rd f.	1st	2nd	3rd
Normal	harrym	harryd	harrish	harree	harrin	harriu	harroo
Emphatic	harryms	harryds	harrishyn	harreeish	harrinyn	harriuish	harroosyn

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Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese coar, from Latin cōlāre, present active infinitive of cōlō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ku.ˈaɾ/, /ˈkwaɾ/

Verb

1. to strain, to filter
2. to distill

Derived terms

• escoar