teiga

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese teeyga, from Andalucian Arabic [script needed] (taʕlíqa, “bag”). Doublet of taleiga and of tega; cognate with Spanish talega.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtɛjɣa̝/

Noun

teiga f (plural teigas)

  1. (dated) basket
  2. (historical units of measure) a unit of dry measure, especially for grain (1⁄16 moio)

Derived terms

References

  • “teeiga” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
  • “teiga” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
  • “teiga” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
  • “teiga” in Santamarina, Antón (coord.): Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
  • “teiga” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
  1. ↑ Corriente, Federico (2008), “taleca”, in Dictionary of Arabic and Allied Loanwords. Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Galician and Kindred Dialects (Handbook of Oriental Studies; 97), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN
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