entanguiñar

Galician

Alternative forms

  • entangar, entangarañar, entangoñar

Etymology

Unknown. From the same origen that Portuguese entanguir; perhaps from en- + tanguer (grab).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [entaŋɡiˈɲaɾ]

Verb

entanguiñar (first-person singular present entanguiño, first-person singular preterite entanguiñei, past participle entanguiñado)

  1. to numb, paralyse, contract or get stiff (with cold, or because of lack of exercise)
    Synonym: entanguecer
    • 1840, Antonio de la Iglesia, Poesías:
      Mandarávos o inverno máis insofríbel e caro
      pra homes papar a eito
      ca xiada entanguiñados.
      he'll send over you the most insufferable and expensive winter
      for eating men nonstop,
      frozen stiff.

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