toxo
English
Noun
toxo (uncountable)
Galician
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Etymology
From Old Galician and Old Galician-Portuguese tojo, from a substrate *toju or similar,[1] from *togio or *toio, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tey- or *(s)teyg- (“to be sharp, to stab”), whence Latin stilus and English stick and thistle;[2] compare Portuguese tojo, Asturian toxu, Occitan toujo.
Pronunciation
Noun
toxo m (plural toxos)
- gorse, furze (Ulex europaeus)
- 1409, J. L. Pensado Tomé (ed.), Tratado de Albeitaria. Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 67:
- se vsaren cauallgar en el por toios ou por llugares asperos a esto semellauijs, ven o Cauallo vsado a saltar et andar porllos llugares sobreditos, alçara as coixas et os pees mais apostamente pollos outros llugares
- if they happen to ride in [the horse] through gorses or through rough places similar to that, and the horse is used to jump and walk by the aforementioned places, then he will raise the thighs and the feet more handsomely when in other places
- se vsaren cauallgar en el por toios ou por llugares asperos a esto semellauijs, ven o Cauallo vsado a saltar et andar porllos llugares sobreditos, alçara as coixas et os pees mais apostamente pollos outros llugares
- Synonym: toxo arnal
- 1409, J. L. Pensado Tomé (ed.), Tratado de Albeitaria. Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 67:
- dwarf gorse, dwarf furze (Ulex minor)
- Synonyms: toxo gateño, toxo molar
- (figurative) sourpuss person
Derived terms
- A Toxa
- Tixosa
- toxal (“place covered by gorse”)
- Toxás
- Toxedo
- toxeira (“place covered by gorse”)
- Toxo
- toxo albar (“Ulex europaeus”)
- toxo arnal (“Ulex europaeus”)
- toxo femia (“Ulex minor”)
- toxo gateño (“Ulex minor”)
- toxo molar (“Ulex minor”)
- Toxos Outos
- Toxoso
See also
toxo on the Galician Wikipedia.Wikipedia gl
References
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- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “toj”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
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- “toxo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
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