bouta

French

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /bu.ta/

Verb

bouta

  1. third-person singular past historic of bouter

Anagrams

Galician

Etymology

From Celtic, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷew- (“excrement; dung”) + the suffix *-to-;[1] Compare German Kot (“feces”), Welsh budr (“filthy”).

Pronunciation

IPA(key): /ˈbowta̝/

Noun

bouta f (plural boutas)

  1. Mixture of cattle manure and water once used as sealant.
  2. The filth formed in a millstone due to the humidity of the grain.

Derived terms
  • emboutar (“to get dirty; to jam”)

References
  • “bouta” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
  • “bouta” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
  • “bouta” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
  1. Julián Santano Moreno, "Celtibérico boustom, iberorromance busto, “pastizal, vacada” y bosta “boñiga”", Nouvelle Revue d’Onomastique, n° 56, 2014, p. 227-262.
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