touticeira

Galician

Etymology

From toutizo (“head; clod”), from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia, from Proto-Indo-European *tewtéh₂ (“people, nation; heap?”), from Proto-Indo-European *tewh₂- (“to swell”).[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /towtiˈθejɾa̝/

Noun

touticeira f (plural touticeiras)

  1. hill

References
  • “touticeira” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
  • “touticeira” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  1. Julian Santano Moreno (2004), “La familia del IE *teu-"hincharse" en las lenguas romances y en vasco. El sustrato indoeuropeo en la etimologia romance”, in Nouvelle revue d'onomastique‎, volume 43, issue 1, ISSN 0755-7752, pages 3-60
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