teiga

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Noun

teiga

  1. paddle

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese teeyga, from Andalusian Arabic تَعْلِيقَة (taʕlíqa, hanging thing). Doublet of taleiga and of tega; cognate with Spanish talega.[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

teiga f (plural teigas)

  1. (dated) basket
  2. (historical units of measure) a unit of dry measure, especially for grain (116 moio)

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Corriente, Federico (2008) “taleca”, in Dictionary of Arabic and Allied Loanwords. Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Galician and Kindred Dialects (Handbook of Oriental Studies; 97), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN