fozar

Galician

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *fodiāre, from Latin fodiō, fodere, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰod- (“to pierce, dig”).[1] Cognate with Portuguese fossar, Spanish hozar.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /foˈθaɾ/, (western) /foˈsaɾ/

Verb

fozar (first-person singular present fozo, first-person singular preterite focei, past participle fozado)

  1. to root, to dig with the snout
    Synonym: furgar
  2. to poke
    Synonym: furgar
  3. to meddle with; to tamper with or handle something ignorantly; to work unproductively on something, because of lack of knowledge or aptitude
    Synonyms: fedellar, fochicar

Conjugation
    Conjugation of fozar (c-z alternation)
Singular Plural
First-person
(eu)		 Second-person
(ti)		 Third-person
(el / ela / Vde.)		 First-person
(nós)		 Second-person
(vós)		 Third-person
(eles / elas / Vdes.)
Infinitive
Impersonal fozar
Personal fozar fozares fozar fozarmos fozardes fozaren
Gerund
fozando
Past participle
Masculine fozado fozados
Feminine fozada fozadas
Indicative
Present fozo fozas foza fozamos fozades fozan
Imperfect fozaba fozabas fozaba fozabamos fozabades fozaban
Preterite focei fozaches fozou fozamos fozastes fozaron
Pluperfect fozara fozaras fozara fozaramos fozarades fozaran
Future fozarei fozarás fozará fozaremos fozaredes fozarán
Conditional fozaría fozarías fozaría fozariamos fozariades fozarían
Subjunctive
Present foce foces foce focemos focedes focen
Imperfect fozase fozases fozase fozásemos fozásedes fozasen
Future fozar fozares fozar fozarmos fozardes fozaren
Imperative
Affirmative foza foce focemos fozade focen
Negative (non) non foces non foce non focemos non focedes non focen

Derived terms

References
  • “foçar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • “foça” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • “fozar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “fozar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “fozar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
  1. Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983–1991) “hozar”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
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