gofio
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish gofio, from Guanche [Term?].
Noun
gofio (uncountable)
- (cooking) Flour made from roasted grains or other starchy plants, a staple in the Canary Islands.
- Coordinate term: tsamba
Further reading
gofio on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Spanish
FWOTD – 16 May 2016
Gofio flour with bread
Alternative forms
- goffio
Etymology
From Guanche [Term?].
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɡofjo/ [ˈɡo.fjo]
- Rhymes: -ofjo
- Syllabification: go‧fio
Noun
gofio m (uncountable)
- (cooking, Canary Islands) gofio (flour made from roasted grains)
- Synonyms: harina tostada, ñaco
- 2006, Fernando Carnero Lorenzo; Juan Sebastián Nuez Yánez, Canarias-Uruguay-Canarias: el papel de los emigrantes canarios en el tejido empresarial de Canarias y Uruguay, Ediciones IDEA, →ISBN, page 232:
- Me crié en la tahona, antes no se tomaba ni café ni cocoa, cuando llegaba de la escuela lo primero que hacía era agarrar una tacita y comerme el gofio seco, una taza de leche con gofio y azúcar, esa era la merienda de todos los niños.
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Further reading
- gofio on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia es
- “gofio”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Welsh
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɡɔvjɔ/
Verb
gofio
- Soft mutation of cofio (“to remember”).
Mutation
| Welsh mutation | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
| cofio | gofio | nghofio | chofio |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | |||