estriga

Galician

Etymology 1

Probably deverbal from estrigar, from Latin extricare (“to disentangle”). Alternatively from Suevic, from Proto-West Germanic *strīkan, from Proto-Germanic *strīkaną, from Proto-Indo-European *streyg- (“to stroke, rub, press”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [esˈtɾiɣɐ]

Noun

estriga m (plural estrigas)

1. strick (bunch of hackled flax)

   Synonym: cerro

   • 1911, Francisco Portela Pérez, O pé da lareira:

     Fiaba a seña Marica unha boa mazaroca de liño: mollaba nos lábeos os dous pormeiros dedos da man esquerda e tirando cara abaixo faguía un fío daquel manoxo de estrigas, mentras que ca dereita enredábaio no fuso, que bailaba de demoro.

     lady Mary was spinning a large spindleful of flax: she moistened the fist two finger of her left hand on her lips and, pulling down, she was making a thread of that handful of stricks, while with her right hand she was winding it in the spindle, which danced slowly

Related terms

• estrigar

 

References

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “estriga”, 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), “estriga”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “estriga”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Etymology 2

Verb

estriga

1. inflection of estrigar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative