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Galician
Etymology
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese chus, from Latin plūs (“more”).
Pronunciation
Adverb
chus
- (dated) more; very
- Synonym: máis
1305, A. López Ferreiro, editor, Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática, Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 498:et sse esto que eu mando he chus pouco cao quinto de todos meus bees assi movil como rrayz- and if this that I'm granting is very little compared with a fifth of all of my possessions, chattel as well as real state, then
Derived terms
References
- “chus” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
- “chus” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “chus” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
Old Galician-Portuguese
Etymology
Inherited from Latin plūs (“more”), from Old Latin *plous, from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁- (“many”). Eventually displaced by mais.
Pronunciation
Adverb
chus
- more
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- tres mouroſ q̇ entṙã / chus negroſ q̇ Satanaſ / no Caſtelo os de dentro / os fezeron en caer.
- three Moors who entered / blacker (more black) than Satan / in the Castle, the ones inside / made them fall.
- Synonym: mais
Descendants
Further reading
Portuguese
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese chus, from Latin plūs (“more”). Displaced by colateral mais.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: (Brazil) -us, (Portugal, Rio de Janeiro) -uʃ
- Hyphenation: chus
Adverb
chus (not comparable)
- (archaic) more
Derived terms
References
Scottish Gaelic
Pronunciation
Noun
chus
- Lenited form of cus.