toutizo

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese toutiço (“back of the head”) (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia, from Proto-Indo-European *tewtéh₂ (“people, nation; heap?”), from Proto-Indo-European *tewh₂- (“to swell”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /towˈtiθo̝/, (western) /towˈtiso̝/

Noun

toutizo m (plural toutizos)

1. top of the head
2. nape
3. top of a hill
4. clod
5. tuft
6. extreme

Related terms

• touta (“dam”)
• toutelo (“lump”)
• touticeira (“hill”)
• touza

References

• “toutiço” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “toutiç”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “toutizo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “toutizo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “toutizo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN