guizo

Perhaps onomatopoeic or from a Germanic language:^[1] compare English whisk, from Proto-Germanic *wiskaz (“bundle”). Cognate with Portuguese guiço and Spanish guizque (“sting”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡiθo̝/, (western) /ˈɡiso̝/

guizo m (plural guizos)

1. twig; splinter; small bundle
2. a stick which is burning or smoldering; brand

• desenguizar
• desguizar
• enguizar
• esguizar
• guiceiro

• “esguiçar” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “guizo”, 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), “guizo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “guizo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Unknown.

• Hyphenation: gui‧zo

guizo m (plural guizos)

1. jingle bell
2. rattle

   Synonym: chocalho

• guizalhar
• guizalho