bruar

Galician

FWOTD – 12 July 2017

Attested in the 13th-century Cantigas de Santa Maria as bruyar; perhaps from Vulgar Latin *brugāre if cognate to French bruire (“to roar”).

bruar (first-person singular present brúo, first-person singular preterite bruei, past participle bruado)

to roar, to bellow (to emit a deep and long sound such as the voice of a large animal)
to grunt (also figuratively)
- 1810, José Fernández y Neira, Proezas de Galicia, page 9:
  ti ves cómo brúa un xabalín cando se ve acosado dos càs? pois así dice que che bruaba, e pateaba ese Sul
  Do you know how a wild boar grunts when hounded by the dogs? so they say that this Sul [a French Napoleonic general] grunted and floundered

Conjugation of bruar

“bruyar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
“bruar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
“bruar” in Santamarina, Antón (coord.): Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
“bruar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Coromines, Joan; Pascual, José A. (1991–1997). Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico. Madrid: Gredos, s.v. ruido.

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