querer dicir
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
- Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “querer dizer”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “quer dizer”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “querer dicir”, 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), “querer dicir”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega