tascar

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tascar

1. to scratch
2. to scutch

Attested from the 15th century. From tasco (“flax bast”).

• IPA^(key): /tasˈkaɾ/

tascar (first-person singular present tasco, first-person singular preterite tasquei, past participle tascado)

1. to scutch (to remove the bast from flax)
   • 1402, A. López Ferreiro, editor, Galicia Historica, I, 5, page 344:

     It. lyno que se em huun saquo por tascar

     Item, flax that is in a sack, for being scutched

2. (of horses) to munch

   Synonym: espadelar

   • 1937, Fuco G. Gómez, O idioma dos animás:

     sentíase o tasquear, espurriñar i esbarrufar das bestas e cabalos xotos

     you could hear the munching, stamping and sneezing of the sullen mares and horses

3. to rub the legs when walking

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “tascar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “tascar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “tascar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “tascar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “tascar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• IPA^(key): /tɐs̺.ˈkaɾ/

tascar

1. to remove the bast from a flax plant

• tascos

• Ferreira, Amadeu, Ferreira, José Pedro Cardona (2003–2022) “tascar”, in Dicionário de Mirandês-Português [Mirandese-Portuguese Dictionary].

From Spanish tascar (“to scutch”)^[1]

tascar (first-person singular present tasco, first-person singular preterite tasquei, past participle tascado)

1. to scutch (to remove the bast from a flax plant)
2. (informal) to nibble

• tasca
• tasco

Maybe from Gothic *𐍄𐌰𐍃𐌺𐍉𐌽 (*taskōn); also compare Proto-Germanic *takkô (“spike”).^[1] Or, from Proto-Celtic *taskos (“badger”), see also Galatian τασκός (taskós, “peg”), Gaulish *tasgos.^[2][3][4]

• IPA^(key): /tasˈkaɾ/ [t̪asˈkaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: tas‧car

tascar (first-person singular present tasco, first-person singular preterite tasqué, past participle tascado)

1. to scutch
2. to crunch

• “tascar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024