hucha

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See also: húchá

French

Pronunciation

Verb

hucha

  1. third-person singular past historic of hucher

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Galician-Portuguese ucha (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), borrowed from Old French huche, from Medieval Latin hutica, perhaps of Germanic origin.[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

hucha f (plural huchas)

  1. chest
    • 1310, Anselmo López Carreira (ed.), Ourense medieval: documentos e arquivos, d. 75:
      Iten lle mando dous mill mrs. de seysseens e de coroados que seen na hucha verde dos signaes daguyas que se no dito moesteiro de Santa Clara e a plata que en ela se.
      Item, I send [to the monastery of Saint Claire] two thousand maravedies which are in the green chest with signs of eagles which is in the aforementioned monastery of Saint Claire, with the silver which is in it
    • 1348, A. López Ferreiro (ed.), Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática. Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 152:
      acharedes en casa na mia ucha cinquoeenta uaras de lenço que seen ordidas et cinquo maranas de fiado cruu et tres de cozido
      you'll find in my home inside my chest fifty yards of weaved cloth and five skeins of raw thread and three boiled
    Synonyms: arca, baúl, cofre
  2. bin
    Synonyms: arca, tulla

References


Quechua

Noun

hucha

  1. guilt, fault, sin, offense, crime
  2. heavy energy (created by humans)

Declension

See also


Spanish

 hucha on Spanish Wikipedia

Etymology

Borrowed from French huche.

Noun

hucha f (plural huchas)

  1. (Spain) piggy bank