Galician

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Etymology

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From Old Galician-Portuguese taleiga, from Andalusian Arabic تَعْلِيقَة (taʕlíqa, hanging thing). Doublet of teiga and of tega; cognate with Spanish talega.[1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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taleiga f (plural taleigas)

  1. large bag
    Synonyms: fardel, fardelo

Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ Corriente, Federico (2008) “taleca”, in Dictionary of Arabic and Allied Loanwords. Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Galician and Kindred Dialects (Handbook of Oriental Studies; 97), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN