tregoa
Galician
Alternative forms
- tregua
Etymology
From Old Galician and Old Portuguese tregua (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), probably from Gothic 𐍄𐍂𐌹𐌲𐌲𐍅𐌰 (triggwa), inflected form of 𐍄𐍂𐌹𐌲𐌲𐍅𐍃 (triggws, “true, faithful”); but attested Medieval Latin treuga points perhaps to a West Germanic *trewwa, from Proto-Germanic *trewwō.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtɾɛɣwa̝/
Noun
tregoa m (plural tregoas)
- truce
References
- “tregoa” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “treug” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.