renxer

From Old Galician-Portuguese renger, from Latin ringere (“to show one's teeth, to gape”), from Latin ringo (“I show my teeth, I gape”) (compare Latin rictus). Cognate with Portuguese ranger and Spanish reñir (“to scold, to quarrel”).

• IPA^(key): /renˈʃeɾ/

renxer (first-person singular present renxo, first-person singular preterite renxín, past participle renxido)

1. to creak
   • 1880, Valentín Lamas Carbajal, Saudades gallegas. Colección de Versos. Ourense: La Propaganda Gallega, page 92:

     turrados polos bois viñan do monte renxendo os carros

     pulled by oxen, the carts came from the hills, creaking

2. to grind (one's teeth)
   • 1905, Antonio López Ferreiro, O niño de pombas. Santiago: Tip. Galicia, page 36:

     cravando nel os ollos, coma pra atravesarlle a alma, dixolle renxendo os dentes: - Xa sabía eu que eras un ruín villán

     staring at him, as trying to pierce his soul, he told while grinding his teeth: -Already I knew that you were a despicable ruffian

• xenreira

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