taleiga

Galician

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese taleiga, from Andalusian Arabic تَعْلِيقَة (taʕlíqa, hanging thing). Doublet of teiga and of tega; cognate with Spanish talega.[1]

Pronunciation

 
  • IPA(key): (standard) /taˈlejɡa/ [t̪aˈlej.ɣ̞ɐ]
  • IPA(key): (gheada) /taˈlejħa/ [t̪aˈlej.ħɐ]

 
  • Rhymes: -ejɡa
  • Rhymes: -ejħa

  • Hyphenation: ta‧lei‧ga

Noun

taleiga f (plural taleigas)

  1. large bag
    Synonyms: fardel, fardelo

Derived terms

  • taleigada

References

  1. ^ Corriente, Federico (2008) “taleca”, in Dictionary of Arabic and Allied Loanwords. Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Galician and Kindred Dialects (Handbook of Oriental Studies; 97), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN