garabizo

Galician

Alternative forms

Etymology

From a substrate language, perhaps from the same origin that carba and carballo; possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kr̥-wós (compare Latin curvus, "bent").[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡaɾaˈβiθo̝/, (western) /ɡaɾaˈβiso̝/

Noun

garabizo m (plural garabizos)

  1. a small twig
    Synonyms: garabato, garabullo, guizo

References

  1. ^ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “garabato”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos