ouca

ouca

See also: ouça and OUCA

Galician

oucas ("water crowtoof")

Alternative forms

• ouga

Etymology

Unknown. Pobably from a substrate language, from *alka, and cognate with Basque auka; less likely from Suevic [Term?].[1]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈowkɐ]

Noun

ouca f (plural oucas)

1. alga; seaweed

   Synonyms: alga, olga, verdello

2. water crowfoot (Ranunculus aquatilis)

   Synonym: verdello

References

• “ouca” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “ouca” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “ouca” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

1. Cf. Bascuas, Edelmiro (2002). Estudios de hidronimia paleoeuropea gallega. Santiago de Compostela: Universidade, Servicio de Publicacións e Intercambio Científico, pp. 300-304. →ISBN.

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Leonese

Etymology

From Old Leonese [Term?], from Vulgar Latin auca (“goose”), from contraction of *avica (“(familiar) bird”), from Latin avis (“bird”).

Noun

ouca f (plural oucas)

1. goose

References

• AEDLL
• Pallabreiru Llïonés