zurcir

Galician

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin sarciō. Cognate with Portuguese cerzir and Spanish zurcir.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [θuɾˈθiɾ], (western) [suɾˈsiɾ]

Verb

zurcir (first-person singular present zurzo, first-person singular preterite zurcín, past participle zurcido)

  1. (transitive, sewing) to darn; to mend (repair by stitching with thread or yarn)
    • 1596, anonymous, Diálogo de Alberte e Bieito:
      o rebes / bin fazer a un cordobes / y a outro sibillano / abofe sinon me engano / ca lle'surziron o ynbes / pola treta / que figeron y a gineta / sobre duas burras pardas / o sacaron sobre albardas / e diante ua tronpeta
      The contrary thing I saw done to a Cordobese and a Sevillian; certainly, If I'm not mistaken, they darned them in the underside because of the trickery they did, and they mounted them on two brown donkeys on packsaddles and paraded them, and ahead a trumpet

Conjugation

  • Note: zurc- are changed to zurz- before back vowels (o, a).

References

Spanish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From surcir (“to darn, to mend”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Spain) /θuɾˈθiɾ/ [θuɾˈθiɾ]
  • IPA(key): (Latin America) /suɾˈsiɾ/ [suɾˈsiɾ]
  • Rhymes: -iɾ
  • Syllabification: zur‧cir
  • Homophone: (Latin America) surcir

Verb

zurcir (first-person singular present zurzo, first-person singular preterite zurcí, past participle zurcido)

  1. (transitive, sewing) to darn; to mend (repair by stitching with thread or yarn)
  2. (Spain, colloquial) to screw
    ¡Que te zurzan! ― Screw you!

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