trousar

Galician

Etymology 1

From Suevic or Gothic, from Proto-Germanic *drauzaz, from *dreusaną (to drop).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tɾowˈsaɾ/

Verb

trousar (first-person singular present trouso, first-person singular preterite trousei, past participle trousado)

  1. (transitive) to vomit
  2. (transitive) to transfer a liquid, to decant
  3. (transitive) to transfer a colony of bees from a beehive to another
Conjugation

Etymology 2

From trouzo.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tɾowˈsaɾ/

Verb

trousar (first-person singular present trouso, first-person singular preterite trousei, past participle trousado)

  1. (transitive) to twist a yarn
  2. (transitive) to nibble
Conjugation

References

  1. ^ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “trousa”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos