vargo

Galician
vargos or chantos

Etymology

Documented in local medieval documents as varganum;[1] from Proto-Celtic *wregis (“wall, eclosure”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁wreǵ- (“close”). Akin to Middle Irish fraig (“interior wall”), Welsh achwre (“wattled fence, palisade”), Sanskrit व्रज (vrajá, “wattle, fence”).[2][3]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈbaɾɣʊ/

Noun

vargo m (plural vargos)

  1. stake used for building a wattled fence
    Synonyms: chanto, estaca
  2. slab used for dividing the space in the stall or for enclosing a property
    Synonyms: barda, chanto

Derived terms
  • vargado (“wattled fence”)

References
  • “Vargoo” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • “vargo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “vargo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “vargo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
  1. "vargano" in Gallaeciae Monumenta Historica.
  2. cf. Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983–1991) “varga”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
  3. Zair, Nicholas (2012) The reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European laryngeals in Celtic, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 27

Latin

Noun

vargō

  1. dative/ablative singular of vargus
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