moza
Asturian edit
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moza
Galician edit
Etymology edit
From Old Galician-Portuguese moço (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria) of unknown origin. Cognate with Portuguese moça, Asturian and Spanish moza.
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Noun edit
moza f (plural mozas, masculine mozo, masculine plural mozos)
- girl; teenager; young lady; single woman
- 1438, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 129:
- Iten, que dían os çapatos de moços e moças de quinse anos fasta viinte, a des mrs, tacoados et sollados et ben apostados et de boo coyro e ben coseytos; et sengellos, a seys mrs.
- Item, they should give the shoes for boys and girls, from fifteen till twenty years old, tacked and soled and corrected and made of good leather and well sewn, at ten maravedis; the simple ones, at six maravedis
- girlfriend
- Synonym: noiva
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moza
References edit
- “moça” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
- “moça” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “moza” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “moza” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “moza” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Latgalian edit
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moza
- inflection of mozs:
References edit
- Nicole Nau (2011) A short grammar of Latgalian, München: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, page 15
Spanish edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Unknown origin, probably ultimately related to muchacho.
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): (Spain) /ˈmoθa/ [ˈmo.θa]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /ˈmosa/ [ˈmo.sa]
- (Spain) Rhymes: -oθa
- (Latin America) Rhymes: -osa
- Syllabification: mo‧za
Noun edit
moza f (plural mozas, masculine mozo, masculine plural mozos)
- female equivalent of mozo
Descendants edit
Adjective edit
moza f
Further reading edit
- “moza”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014