encrucillar

Galician

Alternative forms

• encruzilhar (reintegrationist)

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese encrusillar, from Latin crucicula, from crux. Compare Spanish encrucijar, Catalan cruïllada, Old Occitan crozilha.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [enkɾuθiˈʎaɾ], (western) [enkɾusiˈʎaɾ]

Verb

encrucillar (first-person singular present encrucillo, first-person singular preterite encrucillei, past participle encrucillado)

1. to cross (the arms, the legs...)

   Synonym: cruzar

   • 1458, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, page 337:

     que vira ao dito Johán, ome do dito prouisor, jaser ençima da dita Tareija do Tyollo et ela que tiña as pernas encrusilladas, descobertas, en çima fasta o ventre, ben brancas, et el que pona en ela as pernas e as maaos por las abryr et non podía, et por que as non quería abrir, que lle daba bofetadas et ela, descabellada, jasendo en terra, et disendo "Ay del Rey, ay del Rey".

     that he saw said Xoán, man of the provisor, lying over said Tareixa do Tiollo; and that she had her legs crossed and naked up to her belly and very white; and that he was putting his hands and legs on her for opening them but couldn't; and that because she didn't want to that he was slapping her, who were dishevelled, lying in the ground and saying "Help! Help!".

Conjugation

    Conjugation of encrucillar

	Singular			Plural
	First-person (eu)	Second-person (ti)	Third-person (el / ela / Vde.)	First-person (nós)	Second-person (vós)	Third-person (eles / elas / Vdes.)
Infinitive
Impersonal	encrucillar
Personal	encrucillar	encrucillares	encrucillar	encrucillarmos	encrucillardes	encrucillaren
Gerund
	encrucillando
Past participle
Masculine	encrucillado			encrucillados
Feminine	encrucillada			encrucilladas
Indicative
Present	encrucillo	encrucillas	encrucilla	encrucillamos	encrucillades	encrucillan
Imperfect	encrucillaba	encrucillabas	encrucillaba	encrucillabamos	encrucillabades	encrucillaban
Preterite	encrucillei	encrucillaches	encrucillou	encrucillamos	encrucillastes	encrucillaron
Pluperfect	encrucillara	encrucillaras	encrucillara	encrucillaramos	encrucillarades	encrucillaran
Future	encrucillarei	encrucillarás	encrucillará	encrucillaremos	encrucillaredes	encrucillarán
Conditional	encrucillaría	encrucillarías	encrucillaría	encrucillariamos	encrucillariades	encrucillarían
Subjunctive
Present	encrucille	encrucilles	encrucille	encrucillemos	encrucilledes	encrucillen
Imperfect	encrucillase	encrucillases	encrucillase	encrucillásemos	encrucillásedes	encrucillasen
Future	encrucillar	encrucillares	encrucillar	encrucillarmos	encrucillardes	encrucillaren
Imperative
Affirmative		encrucilla	encrucille	encrucillemos	encrucillade	encrucillen
Negative (non)		non encrucilles	non encrucille	non encrucillemos	non encrucilledes	non encrucillen

Derived terms

• encrucillado
• encrucillada

References

• “encrusil” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “encrucillar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “encrucillar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.