tregoa
Galician
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese tregua (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), probably from Gothic 𐍄𐍂𐌹𐌲𐌲𐍅𐌰 (triggwa), inflected form of 𐍄𐍂𐌹𐌲𐌲𐍅𐍃 (triggws, “true, faithful”); but attested Medieval Latin treuga points perhaps to a West Germanic *trewwa, from Proto-Germanic *trewwō.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtɾɛɣwa̝/
Noun
tregoa m (plural tregoas)
References
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “tregoa”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- ^ Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “treug”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega