chousa

Inherited from Latin causa. Doublet of côsa.

chousa f (plural chouses) (ORB, broad)

1. thing

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

• ALF: Atlas Linguistique de la France^[1] [Linguistic Atlas of France] – map 282: “sont deux choses” – on lig-tdcge.imag.fr
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “causa”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 2: C Q K, page 541

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

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

• Chousa
• Chousa Grande
• Chousela
• Chouselas

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

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “chousa”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “chousa”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (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

From Latin clausa.^[1]

• (Minho) IPA^(key): [ˈt͡ʃou̯.z̺ɐ]

chousa f (plural chousas)

1. (archaic, Minho) enclosed pastures or orchard