xeitar

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Galician-Portuguese geitar, from Vulgar Latin jectāre, iectāre, from Latin iactāre, present active infinitive of iactō. Cognate with Portuguese jeitar, Spanish echar, French jeter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃejˈtaɾ/

Verb

1. (takes a reflexive pronoun, dated) to lie down
   • 1869, Domingo Blanco (ed.), A poesía popular en Galicia 1745-1885. Recopilación, estudio e edición crítica (vol. I), Vigo: Xerais, page 387:

     Anque che veño do xeito non che veño de xeitar: veño de tomar sardiñas d'alá do medio do mar.

     Although I came from fishing ["xeito"] I've haven't been resting ["xeitar"]: I've come from catching sardines in the middle of the sea

     (there's a pun between xeitar, resting, and xeito, throwing, i.e. fishing)

2. (archaic) to expel
3. (archaic) to transfer a property

Related terms

• axeitar
• deitar
• enxeitar
• rexeitar
• xeito
• xeitoso

References

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• “jeit” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
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