teixo
Galician
Etymology 1
From Latin taxus, from Scythian.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtejʃo̝/
Noun
teixo m (plural teixos)
- (botany) yew
- 1409, José Luis Pensado Tomé (ed.), Tratado de Albeitaria. Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 129:
- Para desfazer aquel callo ual moyto o maluisco et a Rayz do lilio et a Rayz do teixo
- the marshmallow, the lily root, and the yew root, are very useful for undoing that callosity
- Para desfazer aquel callo ual moyto o maluisco et a Rayz do lilio et a Rayz do teixo
- 1409, José Luis Pensado Tomé (ed.), Tratado de Albeitaria. Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 129:
Derived terms
- Teixedo
- teixeira
- Teixeira
- Teixeiro
- Teixido
- Teixo
Etymology 2
From late Vulgar Latin taxus (“badger”), from Proto-Germanic *þahsuz (“badger”)[1] or either from Proto-Celtic *tasko- (“badger”).[2][3]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtejʃo̝/
Noun
teixo m (plural teixos)
- badger
Derived terms
- Teixoeira
- Teixoeiras
Related terms
- porco teixo
- teixón
- teixugo
Adjective
teixo m (feminine singular teixa, masculine plural teixos, feminine plural teixas)
- dark brown to reddish yellow (applied to cows and other animals)
- severe, unsociable
References
- “teix” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “teixo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “teixo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “teixo” 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), “tejón”, 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.
- Grzega, Joachim (2001) Romania Gallica Cisalpina etymologisch-geolinguistische Studien zu den oberitalienisch-rätoromanischen Keltizismen, Tübingen: M. Niemeyer, →ISBN, page 240 – via De Gruyter.
Portuguese
Etymology
From Latin taxus, from Scythian.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈte(j).ʃu/ [ˈte(ɪ̯).ʃu]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈte(j).ʃo/ [ˈte(ɪ̯).ʃo]
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈtɐj.ʃu/
- (Central Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈtej.ʃu/
- (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈte.ʃu/
- Hyphenation: tei‧xo
Noun
teixo m (plural teixos)
- yew
Related terms
- Teixeira