xugo

Attested since the 13th century (jugo). From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin jugum, iugum. Compare Portuguese jugo, Spanish yugo.

• IPA^(key): [ˈʃuɣʊ]

xugo m (plural xugos)

1. yoke

   Synonym: canga

2. chain or strap that connects both parts of a flail

   Synonyms: cedoiro, entrecarto, inzadoiro, loro, pealla

• xugo de cancís (“withers yoke”)
• xugo de canga (“bow yoke”)
• xugo de mulida (“head yoke”)

• xunguir

• xugo on the Galician Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^gl

• “jugo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “jugo” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “xugo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “xugo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “xugo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Inherited from Latin sūcus. For the development of the initial consonant, compare xeringa and xabon.

xugo m (plural xugos)

1. juice
   • c. 1223, anonymous author, Semejanza del mundo:

     e dizen a otra piedra malanites, este nonbre por que quando la quebrantan salle della vn xugo dulçe como mjel

     and there is another stone named malanites, thus called because when it is broken, some juice, sweet like honey, comes out of it

• Spanish: jugo

• xógo, xogo, zugo

From Latin jocus, iocus. Compare Italian gioco.

xugo m (plural xughi)

1. game

• xugadore
• xugar, xogar, zugar