touza

== Galician == === Etymology 1 === From Medieval Galician touça, from a substrate language *touttia, from Proto-Indo-European *tewh₂- (“to swell”). ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): /ˈtowθa̝/, (western) /ˈtowsa̝/ ==== Noun ==== touza f (plural touzas) enclosed uncultivated land, usually used as a tree farm 1325, Miguel Romaní Martínez, La colección diplomática de Santa María de Oseira (1025-1310). Santiago: Tórculo Edicións, 3, p. 66: en a touça que jaz entre as leyras ambas que tem Domingo Eanes in the uncultivated lands which lie in between both patchs of farmaland belonging to Domingo Eanes stump tuft boulder grove ===== Derived terms ===== ==== References ==== Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “touça”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “touza”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “touza”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “touza”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN === Etymology 2 === ==== Verb ==== touza inflection of touzar: third-person singular present indicative second-person singular imperative