tosquiar

• tosquear, tusquiar

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese trosquiar (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria). Blend of tosar +‎ *esquirar: compare Spanish trasquilar and esquilar, from Gothic *𐍃𐌺𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌰𐌽 (skairan), from Proto-Germanic *skeraną (“to shear”).[1]

• IPA^(key): /toskiˈaɾ/

tosquiar (first-person singular present tosquío, first-person singular preterite tosquiei, past participle tosquiado)

1. to shear
   • c1295, Ramón Lorenzo (ed.), La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla. Ourense: I.E.O.P.F., page 126:

     Mays foy y enga[na]do, ca lle cõteçeu, segũdo diz o prouerbio, com̃o [a]o carneyro que uay buscar laa allea et uem dala trosquiado da sua

     But he was fooled then, because it happened to him, as the proverb says, like to the ram that went there searching for other's wool and comes back sheared

   Synonym: rapar

• “tosquiar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “trosq” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “tosquiar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “tosquiar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “tosquiar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From Spanish trasquilar.

tosquiar (first-person singular present indicative tosquio, past participle tosquiado)

1. to shear (remove the fleece from sheep)

   Synonyms: esquilar (Rio Grande do Sul), tosar