Galician

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old Galician-Portuguese tregua (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), probably from Gothic 𐍄𐍂𐌹𐌲𐌲𐍅𐌰 (triggwa), inflected form of 𐍄𐍂𐌹𐌲𐌲𐍅𐍃 (triggws, true, faithful); but attested Medieval Latin treuga points perhaps to a West Germanic *trewwa, from Proto-Germanic *trewwō.[1]

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Noun

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tregoa m (plural tregoas)

  1. truce

References

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  • tregoa” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  1. ^ Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (20062018) “treug”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG