chousa

Franco-Provençal

Etymology

Inherited from Latin causa. Doublet of côsa.

Noun

chousa f (plural chouses) (ORB, broad)

1. thing

References

• chose in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
• chousa in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

Further information

• ALF: Atlas Linguistique de la France – map 282 – on lig-tdcge.imag.fr
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “causa”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 2: C Q K, page 541

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin clausa (“enclosed”). Compare Portuguese chouso, chousura.

Noun

chousa f (plural chousas)

1. enclosed woodland

   Synonyms: devesa, landeira, zarra

2. enclosed pastures or orchard
   • 1362, Enrique Cal Pardo, editor, Colección diplomática medieval do arquivo da catedral de Mondoñedo, Santiago: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 172:

     en toda a chousa que Andre Deus de Ueyga tinna sarrada et marcada por marcos et chantada de vinna

     in all the enclosing that André de Deus de Veiga had closed and delimited by boundary stoned and planted with vines

3. (fishing) a fine mesh net

Derived terms

• Chousa
• Chousa Grande
• Chousela
• Chouselas

Related terms

• choer (“to enclose”)
• chouso
• Chouso
• chousura
• conchouso

References

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “chousa”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “chousa”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “chousa”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “chousa”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “chousa”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN