chus

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese chus, from Latin plūs (“more”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃus/

chus

1. (dated) more; very
   • 1305, A. López Ferreiro (ed.), Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática. Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 498:

     et sse esto que eu mando he chus pouco cao quinto de todos meus bees assi movil como rrayz

     and if this that I'm granting is very little compared with a fifth of all of my possessions, chattel as well as real state, then [...]

   Synonym: máis

• Non dicir chus nin mus (“shh!”)

• “chus” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “chus” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “chus” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.

From Latin plūs (“more”), from Old Latin *plous, from Proto-Indo-European *plē-, *pelu- (“many”). Eventually displaced by mais.

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃus̺/

chus

1. more
   • 13th century, attributed to Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, E codex, cantiga 185 (facsimile):

     tres mouroſ q̇ entṙã / chus negroſ q̇ Satanaſ / no Caſtelo os de dentro / os fezeron en caer.

     three Moors who entered / blacker (more black) than Satan / in the Castle, the ones inside / made them fall.

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