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Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpeza/
- Hyphenation: pe‧za
Adjective
peza (accusative singular pezan, plural pezaj, accusative plural pezajn)
- heavy, onerous, weighty
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Galician
Etymology
Attested in local medieval documents as peza (969); from Old Galician-Portuguese peça, from Vulgar Latin *pettia, probably from Gaulish, from Proto-Celtic *kʷezdis. Compare French pièce, Portuguese peça, Spanish pieza, Italian pezza, Welsh peth, Irish cuid.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpɛθa̝/, (western) /ˈpɛsa̝/
Noun
peza f (plural pezas)
- piece, fragment, part, component of a larger or composite object
- a piece of land
1278, Emilio Duro Peña, editor, El Monasterio de San Esteban de Ribas de Sil, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F., page 290:una leyra con una peça de monte- a farmland patch with a piece of uncultivated land
- subset; group
1441, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 272:que desta dita çibdade avían partido Pero Dias de Cadorna e Martín Sánches, abade da Triindade da dita çibdade, con çerta gente de cavalo e de pe, pera Milmanda, sobre rasón de çerto insulto que ena dita villa de Millmanda avían feyto Martín de Castro, con peça de gente do señorío de Purtogal- that from this city had departed Pedro Diaz de Cadorna and Martín Sánchez, abbot of the Trinity of said city, with some mounted and unmounted people, to Milmanda, because of a certain insult that in said town of Milmanda had done Martín de Castro with a group of people of the realm of Portugal
- game piece
- a piece leather used in shoemaking
- latrine
- net
- each one of the fixed periods of time allotted for the use of a mill
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References
- “peça” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
- “peça” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “peza” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “peza” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “peza” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Ludian
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *pesä.
Noun
peza
- nest
Veps
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *pesä.
Noun
peza
- nest
- lair, den
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References
- Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “берлога, гнездо, логово”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika