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Galician
Etymology
From querer (“to want”) + dicir (“to say”). Compare Portuguese querer dizer and Spanish querer decir.
Verb
querer dicir (first-person singular present quero dicir, first-person singular preterite quixen dicir, past participle querido dicir)
- (personal) to mean
- O que quero dicir é... ― What I mean is...
- to mean; to signify
- Synonym: significa
- Este símbolo quere dicir perigo ― This symbol means danger
1390, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Os Miragres de Santiago, Madrid: C.S.I.C., page 27:"Osana fili[o] Dauidi", que quer dizer en lingoajen galego: "Señor faysnos saluos!"- "Hosanna filio David", which in Galician language means: "Lord, You save us!"
Conjugation
References
- “querer dizer” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
- “quer dizer” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “querer dicir” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “querer dicir” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.