tueco

Spanish

Etymology

Uncertain, perhaps onomatopoeic. Compare Portuguese toco (“stump”) and Galician toco (“burrow, stump”).

Noun

tueco m (plural tuecos)

1. stump; treestump

Derived terms

• tocón

 

Further reading

• “tueco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28