soguejar
Catalan
editEtymology
editVerb
editsoguejar (first-person singular present soguejo, first-person singular preterite soguegí, past participle soguejat)
- (transitive) to measure (land) with a rope
- 1930, Josep Pascual Tirado, Tombatossals:
- Més sério que un plat d’arròs i pegant grans camallades, com si pretenguera soguejar un sotanell de terra pobra, lleument esfondrà els peus descalços per vora mar lo nostre forçut i enamorat Tombatossals.
- More serious than an owl and taking huge strides, as it he were attempting to measure off a parcel of poor land, our brawny and besotted Tombatossals lightly let his his bare feet sink by the seacoast.
Conjugation
edit Conjugation of soguejar (first conjugation, j-g alternation)
Further reading
edit- “soguejar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “soguejar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “soguejar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.