fouciña
Galician
editAlternative forms
edit- foucía (NE Galicia)
Etymology
editFrom fouciño.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editfouciña f (plural fouciñas)
- a toothed sickle
- a stronger sickle used to reap wheat, rye, barley
- 1474, Antonio López Ferreiro, editor, Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática, Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 66:
- tres fouçiñas, e dous fouçiños, e hun legon, e hun sacho, e hun escoupere, e hua eyxola grande, e hua serra de mao, e outra eyxola de peto, e tres fouçes, e duas choquas
- three toothed sickles, and two sickles, a hoe, a mattock, a chisel, a large axe, a handsaw, a hatchet, three long sickles, and two cowbells
Related terms
editReferences
edit- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “fouci”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “fouç”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- “fouciña” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
- “fouciña” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “fouciña” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.