renxer

Galician

From Old Galician-Portuguese renger, from Latin ringere (“to show one's teeth, to gape”), from Latin ringo (“I show my teeth, I gape”) (compare Latin rictus). Cognate with Portuguese ranger and Spanish reñir (“to scold, to quarrel”).

renxer (first-person singular present renxo, first-person singular preterite renxín, past participle renxido)

to creak
- 1880, Valentín Lamas Carbajal, Saudades gallegas. Colección de Versos, Ourense: La Propaganda Gallega, page 92:
  turrados polos bois viñan do monte renxendo os carros
  pulled by oxen, the carts came from the hills, creaking
to grind (one's teeth)
- 1905, Antonio López Ferreiro, O niño de pombas, Santiago: Tip. Galicia, page 36:
  cravando nel os ollos, coma pra atravesarlle a alma, dixolle renxendo os dentes: - Xa sabía eu que eras un ruín villán
  staring at him, as trying to pierce his soul, he told while grinding his teeth: -Already I knew that you were a despicable ruffian

Conjugation of renxer

Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “renger”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “renge”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “renxer”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “renxer”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “renxer”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN