choer

From Old Galician-Portuguese choyr, from Latin claudere. Attested in the Cantigas de Santa Maria; compare also archaic Portuguese chouvir.

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃoˈeɾ/

choer (first-person singular present choio, first-person singular preterite choín, past participle choído)
choer (first-person singular present choo, first-person singular preterite choim or choí, past participle choído, reintegrationist norm)

1. (transitive) to enclose a terrain
   • 1394, Alexandra Cabana Outeiro, editor, O Tombo H da catedral de Santiago. Documentos anteriores a 1397, Valga: Concello de Valga, page 88:

     E outrosý auedes de cauar e escauar e rrodrigar e podar e choer e valar as ditas viñas

     And also you should dig, excavate, stake, prune, enclose, hurdle the aforementioned vineyard

   • 1438, Manuel Lucas Alvarez & María José Justo Martín (eds.), Fontes documentais da Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Pergameos da serie Bens do Arquivo Histórico Universitario (Anos 1237-1537). Santiago: Consello da Cultura Galega. page 398:

     eu o dito Juan Afonso podey et choyn et fiz cauar o dito baçelo de viña

     I, the aforementioned Xoan Afonso, pruned, enclosed and ordered to dig the mentioned new vineyard

2. (transitive) to enclose the cattle
3. (transitive, dated) to close, to lock
   • 1820, anonymous author, Tertulia en la Quintana, page 123:

     o tal libreiro ¡miña xoia! fuxeu, e deixou choídas as portas da súa casa

     this bookseller, the poor man!, he fled and left the doors of his house closed

• choiar

• chousa (“enclosed terrain”)
• chouselo (“enclosed terrain”)
• chouso (“enclosed terrain”)
• chousume (“materials used for enclosing a terrain”)
• deschoer
• rechoer

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “choer”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “choyr”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “choer”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “choer”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “choer”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “choer” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “choer”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN