vargo

Galician

Etymology

Documented in local medieval documents as varganum; from Proto-Celtic *wregV- (“wall, eclosure”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁wreǵ- (“close”). Akin to Middle Irish fraig (“interior wall”), Welsh achwre (“wattled fence, palisade”), Sanskrit व्रज (vrajá, “wattle, fence”).[1][2]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈbaɾɣo̝/

Noun

vargo m (plural vargos)

  1. stake used for building a wattled fence.
    Synonyms: chanto, estaca
  2. slab used for dividing the space in the stall or for enclosing a property.
    Synonyms: barda, chanto

Derived terms
  • vargado (“wattled fence”)

References
  • “Vargoo” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
  • “vargo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
  • “vargo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “vargo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
  1. cf. Coromines, Joan; Pascual, José A. (1991–1997). Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico. Madrid: Gredos, s.v. varga.
  2. Zair, Nicholas (2012) The reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European laryngeals in Celtic, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN

Latin

Noun

vargō

  1. dative singular of vargus
  2. ablative singular of vargus
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