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Old Galician-Portuguese
Etymology
Uncertain. Early medieval /ow/ implies an earlier */aw/, and the ending is presumably to be identified with -iço. The initial element can therefore be reconstructed as */sawɾ-/, which may correspond to Proto-West Germanic *sauʀ(ī) (“dry”). The semantics seem fitting enough for a cured meat. In any case the term lacks any Romance cognates (Spanish chorizo being a borrowing from Galician or Portuguese) which – if the foregoing etymology is correct – may point to a localised borrowing via Suevic.
Pronunciation
Noun
souriço m (plural souriços)
- chorizo (type of sausage)
13th c., Fernão Garcia de Sousa,
cantiga de escárnio :
- Non acharedes, en toda Castela, / graças a Deus, de que mi agora praz, / melhor ventrulho nen melhor morcela / do que a ama con sa mão faz; / e al faz ben, como diz seu marido; / faz bon souriç' e lava ben transsido / e deita ben galinha choca assaz.
- You won't find in all of Castile – thank God for how she delights me – any better sausage of tripe, nor any of blood, than the one that the maid makes by hand. She's good at other things too, as her husband reports: she's good at making chorizo
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