tascar

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Asturian

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Verb

tascar

  1. to scratch
  2. to scutch

Conjugation

Galician

Etymology

Attested from the 15th century. From tasco (flax bast).

Pronunciation

Verb

tascar (first-person singular present tasco, first-person singular preterite tasquei, past participle tascado)

  1. to scutch (to remove the bast from flax)
    • 1402, A. López Ferreiro, editor, Galicia Historica, I, 5, page 344:
      It. lyno que se em huun saquo por tascar
      Item, flax that is in a sack, for being scutched
  2. (of horses) to munch
    Synonym: espadelar
    • 1937, Fuco G. Gómez, O idioma dos animás:
      sentíase o tasquear, espurriñar i esbarrufar das bestas e cabalos xotos
      you could hear the munching, stamping and sneezing of the sullen mares and horses
  3. to rub the legs when walking

Conjugation

References

Mirandese

Pronunciation

Verb

tascar

  1. to remove the bast from a flax plant

References

  • “tascar” in Amadeu Ferreira, José Pedro Cardona Ferreira, Dicionário Mirandês-Português, 1st edition, 2004.

Portuguese

Etymology

From Spanish tascar (to scutch)[1]

Pronunciation

 
 

Verb

tascar (first-person singular present tasco, first-person singular preterite tasquei, past participle tascado)

  1. to scutch (to remove the bast from a flax plant)
  2. (informal) to nibble

Conjugation

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ tascar” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913

Spanish

Etymology

Maybe from Gothic *𐍄𐌰𐍃𐌺𐍉𐌽 (*taskōn); also compare Proto-Germanic *takkô (spike).[1] Or, from Proto-Celtic *taskos (badger), see also Gallaecian τασκός (peg), Gaulish *tasgos.[2][3][4]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tasˈkaɾ/
  • Rhymes: -aɾ
  • Syllabification: tas‧car

Verb

tascar (first-person singular present tasco, first-person singular preterite tasqué, past participle tascado)

  1. to scutch
  2. to crunch

Conjugation

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ tascar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28
  2. ^ Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN
  3. ^ Koch, J. T. (2006). Celtic Culture: A-Celti. United States: ABC-CLIO, p. 788
  4. ^ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “tascar”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

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