bouta
English edit
Contraction edit
bouta
- Alternative form of boutta
French edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
bouta
- third-person singular past historic of bouter
Anagrams edit
Galician edit
Etymology edit
From Celtic, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷewh₁- (“excrement; dung”) + the suffix *-to-;[1] Compare German Kot (“feces”), Welsh budr (“filthy”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bouta f (plural boutas)
- mixture of cattle manure and water once used as sealant
- the filth formed in a millstone due to the humidity of the grain
Derived terms edit
- emboutar (“to get dirty; to jam”)
Related terms edit
- bosta (“dung”)
References edit
- “bouta” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “bouta” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “bouta” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
- ^ Julián Santano Moreno, "Celtibérico boustom, iberorromance busto, “pastizal, vacada” y bosta “boñiga”", Nouvelle Revue d’Onomastique, n° 56, 2014, p. 227-262.