igar

• enguar, iguar

From Old Galician-Portuguese iguar (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin aequo.

• IPA^(key): [iˈɣaɾ]

igar (first-person singular present igo, first-person singular preterite iguei, past participle igado)

1. to make equal, to equalize
   • 1350, Kelvin M. Parker (ed.), Historia Troyana. Santiago: Instituto "Padre Sarmiento", page 52:

     que me dizẽ Palas, sõo deesa de batalla, et corro mõte et caço Et quando d'alo veño, tã fremosa me paro que nẽgũa d'elas nõ ygoaria comygo en paresçer ben

     They call me Palas, I'm goddess of the battle, and I roam the woods and hunt, and when I come from there I'm so beautiful that none of them would be my equal in looking good

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “iguar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “ygoar”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “igar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “igar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “igar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “iguar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “enguar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Back-formation from -igar. Considered a modified version of agar.

igar (present igas, past igis, future igos, conditional igus, imperative igez)

1. (transitive) to make, cause, render

igar

1. romanization of ꦲꦶꦒꦂ