touzo

Galician

Alternative forms

• trouzo

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Galician-Portuguese touço (“launching log”) (13th century, used by the Galician author Lopo Lias), from a substrate language, from Proto-Indo-European *tewh₂- (“to swell”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtowθo̝/, (western) /ˈtowso̝/

Noun

touzo m (plural touzos)

1. stump
2. extreme of the shaft of a watermill
3. (by extension) shaft of a watermill

Derived terms

• touceira (“enclosed woodland”)
• Touceda
• Toucedo
• Touceira
• Touceiro
• Toucido
• Touciñas
• touza
• Touzal
• Touzas
• Touzón
• Touzosas

References

• Template:R:DDGM
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “touç”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Template:R:DDLG
• Template:R:TILG
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “touzo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN