coio
Galician
Coios
Alternative forms
- croio
Etymology
From a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia, perhaps from Proto-Celtic *krowdi- (“crude, rude, raw > hard, severe”); compare Irish crua.[1][2] From Proto-Indo-European *krewh₂-. Alternatively, from the same origin of con, via a medieval form *cõo.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkɔjo̝/
Noun
coio m (plural coios)
- pebble
- stone
Derived terms
- coial
- coído
- coieira
- coiñal
Related terms
- con
References
- “coio” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “coio” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “coio” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
- Joan Coromines; José A. Pascual (1983–1991), “croyo”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
- Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 226-227