gorentar
Galician
Etymology
From goro (“infertile egg”) + -entar; goro from Proto-Celtic *gʷero- (“warm up, heat”).[1] Once meaning, probably, 'to warm / cook the food'.[2]
Pronunciation
Verb
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- (intransitive) to have a delicious taste; to be delectable
- 1807, anonymous, Primeiro diálogo dos esterqueiros, in Ramón Mariño Paz (ed.), Papés d'emprenta condenada. A escrita galega entre 1797 e 1846:
- ¡pro o viño eravos testo! tiñavos tan bo olido que resucitaba os mortos, e un sabor que gorentaba
- But the wine it was great, pals! It had such a scent that it raised the dead, and a delicious taste
- ¡pro o viño eravos testo! tiñavos tan bo olido que resucitaba os mortos, e un sabor que gorentaba
- 1807, anonymous, Primeiro diálogo dos esterqueiros, in Ramón Mariño Paz (ed.), Papés d'emprenta condenada. A escrita galega entre 1797 e 1846:
- (transitive) to relish
Conjugation
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References
- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 146
- ^ Template:R:DCECH