azorrego
Galician edit
Etymology edit
Obscure; perhaps from Arabic, or either from Mozarabic, from Vulgar Latin *excorrigiata.[1] Cognate with Portuguese azorrague, Catalan xurriaques, and Spanish zurriaga.
Noun edit
azorrego m (plural azorregos)
- (dated) whip used to goad or direct animals
- 1409, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Tratado de Albeitaria, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 69:
- Et pasando porllos ditos, hu ha gran roido et gran soon se se o Cauallo espantar no no deuen ferir con açorregos, nen con vara, nen con espora, mais deuen no trager mansamente, con hũa cana afaagandoo et lleuandoo porllos ditos llugares a miude
- And passing by the mentioned places, where there is big noise and big sound, if the horse frightens, they should not wound him with whips nor with a stick, nor with spoor, rather they should bring him meekly, fondling him with a twig and taking him through this places often
Related terms edit
References edit
- “açorrego” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “azorrego” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- ^ Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983–1991) “zurriaga”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos