estriga

Galician

Etymology 1

Probably deverbal from estrigar, from Latin extricare (“to disentangle”). Alternatively from Suevic, from Proto-West Germanic *strīkan, from Proto-Germanic *strīkaną, from Proto-Indo-European *streyg- (“to stroke, rub, press”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [esˈtɾiɣɐ]

Noun

estriga m (plural estrigas)

1. strick (bunch of hackled flax)

   Synonym: cerro

   • 1911, Francisco Portela Pérez, O pé da lareira:

     Fiaba a seña Marica unha boa mazaroca de liño: mollaba nos lábeos os dous pormeiros dedos da man esquerda e tirando cara abaixo faguía un fío daquel manoxo de estrigas, mentras que ca dereita enredábaio no fuso, que bailaba de demoro.

     lady Mary was spinning a large spindleful of flax: she moistened the fist two finger of her left hand on her lips and, pulling down, she was making a thread of that handful of stricks, while with her right hand she was winding it in the spindle, which danced slowly

Related terms

• estrigar

 

References

• “estriga” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “estriga” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “estriga” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Etymology 2

Verb

estriga

1. inflection of estrigar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative