acougar

• acoubar, aqueibar

Attested since the 17th century. Perhaps from Latin accubāre (“to relax”), or rather from a derivative: Vulgar Latin *accubicāre.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /akowˈɣaɾ/

acougar (first-person singular present acougo, first-person singular preterite acouguei, past participle acougado)

1. (transitive, intransitive) to calm down, settle down; to tranquilize
   • 1671, Gabriel Feixoo de Araúxo, Contenda dos labradores de Caldelas:

     cosais co'esta tunda aqueibaran, enon seran ousados de vir por lan, è volber trasquilados

     perhaps with this beating they will settle down, and they will not dare to come for wool and return shorn

   • 1775, María Francisca Isla y Losada, Romance:

     Deixame estàr à meu cabo
     layandome do meu mal,
     que abo fèllas farto teño;
     grasias aDeus, que mo dà!
     Dòncheme tànto as sofràxes
     ô Peito, è aínda màis,
     que de dia, nin de nòite
     eu nunca podo acougàr.

     Let me be by my side
     complaining about my sickness,
     which, by God, I have more than enough;
     thanks God, who gives that to me!
     My houghs hurt so bad,
     and my chest, and even more,
     that neither day nor night
     can I settle down

   • 1823, anonymous, "Poem to the insurrects of Burón", in Ramón Mariño Paz (1991): Estudio fonético, ortográfico e morfolóxico de textos do prerrexurdimento galego (1805-1837), Santiago: USC, page 4.

     Acougade, Buroneses, / E volvede ás vosas casas, / Se non queredes perder / Honra e vida na demanda

     Settle down, people of Burón! And go back to your homes, if you don't want to lose honor and life in this demand

   Synonyms: calmar, parar, tranquilizar

• acougo

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “acougar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (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), “acougar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “acougar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “acougar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN