escoitar

• escuitar
• escutar (reintegrationist)

From Old Galician-Portuguese escuitar, ascuitar, ascoitar, from Latin ascultāre. Compare Portuguese escutar.

• (standard) IPA^(key): /eskojˈtaɾ/
• (dialectal) IPA^(key): /eskujˈtaɾ/

escoitar (first-person singular present escoito, first-person singular preterite escoitei, past participle escoitado)

1. to listen, to pay attention
   • 1697, Iván Antonio Torrado, Fiestas Minervales, page 53:

     Fala o corvo, escoiten todos: Eu veño con asas negras Cortando os ventos de lonxe

     The crow speaks, "everybody, listen to me: I've come with black wings cutting the wind from far away"

   • 1822, anonymous author, A Parola Polêteca:

     En escoitalo, señor tio Calacú, xà o peléxo do meu corpo tembra. Sei que á tanta agua que acarrexóu amolentoulle os miolos, é por eso louquéa

     While listening to you, my sir uncle Pumpkin, my body's skin trembles. Perhaps the much water you have carried softened you brain, and therefore you are going insane

2. to listen while hidden

   quen escoita, mal de si ouza (proverb)

   he/she who skulks should hear bad thing about himself/herself

• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “ascoit”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “escoitar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “escoitar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “escoitar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “escoitar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN