escorxar

Inherited from Late Latin excorticāre, cognate with French écorcher. Doublet of excorticar, a learned borrowing.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [əs.kurˈʃa]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [əs.korˈʃa]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [es.koɾˈt͡ʃaɾ]

escorxar (first-person singular present escorxo, first-person singular preterite escorxí, past participle escorxat); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /ɔ/

1. to decorticate, debark
2. to skin

• escorxador
• escorxament
• escorxa-rosses

• escorçar
• escorxa

• “escorxar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “escorxar”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007