touca

Attested in local Medieval Latin documents as tauca, from a substrate pre-Latin language, from Proto-Indo-European *tewh₂- (“to swell”).[1]

Cognate with Portuguese touca, Spanish toca, Basque taika.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtowka̝/

touca f (plural toucas)

1. cloth-like tissue which surrounds the guts of animals
2. cloth, shawl, veil
   • 1280, Miguel Romaní Martínez (ed.), La colección diplomática de Santa María de Oseira. Santiago: Tórculo, page 1090:

     una savaa et IIas toucas et una saya d-estanforte

     a bed sheet and two shawls and a robe of [cloth] of Stanford

3. coif
4. green laver (Ulva lactuca)

• (coif): cofia
• (veil): veo

• touquinegra (“nun”)

• touciño (“lard”)

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

touca f (plural toucas)

1. knit cap; bobble hat (cap worn for protection from the cold)

• touca de banho
• touca de natação