touticeira

Galician

Etymology

From toutizo (“head; clod”), from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia, from Proto-Indo-European *tewtéh₂ (“people, nation; heap?”), from Proto-Indo-European *tewh₂- (“to swell”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /towtiˈθejɾa̝/

Noun

touticeira f (plural touticeiras)

1. hill

Related terms

• touta (“dam”)
• toutizo
• touza

References

• “touticeira” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “touticeira” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.