lousar

• loixar, louxar

Attested since circa 1300. From lousa (“flagstone”).

• IPA^(key): /lowˈsaɾ/

lousar (first-person singular present louso, first-person singular preterite lousei, past participle lousado)

1. (transitive) to roof with flagstones (usually made of slate)
2. (transitive) to pave with flagstones
   • 1295, Ramón Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F., page 17:

     fezo Abderamẽ lousar et est[r]ar de pedra todas [as] cales de Cordoua

     Abd al-Rahman ordered to pave in stone every street in Cordoba

• enlousar (“to pave, to roof”)
• lousado (“roof tilled with flagstones”)

• “lousar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “lousar” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “lousar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “lousar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, since 2012
• “lousar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “lousar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
• “lousar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.