touciño

Galician

touciño

Alternative forms

• toucín (northeastern Galicia)
• toucinho (reintegrationist)

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese toucinho, from a substrate pre-Latin language, from Proto-Indo-European *tewh₂- (“to swell”).

Cognate with Portuguese toucinho and Spanish tocino.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /towˈθiɲo/ [t̪owˈθi.ɲʊ]

• IPA^(key): (standard) /towˈθiɲo/ [t̪owˈθi.ɲʊ]
• IPA^(key): (seseo) /towˈsiɲo/ [t̪owˈsi.ɲʊ]

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• Rhymes: -iɲo
• Hyphenation: tou‧ci‧ño

Noun

touciño m (plural touciños)

1. lard, bacon
   • 1351, M. Lucas Alvarez, M. e P. P. Lucas Dominguez (ed.), San Pedro de Ramirás. Un monasterio femenino en la Edad Media. Colección diplomática. Santiago: Caixa Galicia, page 506:

     de pan branco e de vino e meo duun boo touçino

     of wheat bread, and of wine, and half a good piece of bacon

Related terms

• touca (“cloth”)

References

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “touçi”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• “touciño” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “touciño”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “touciño”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN