tinguir

• tiñir, tinxir

From Old Galician-Portuguese tingir, from Latin tingere (“to dye”), from Proto-Indo-European *teng- (“to soak, dip”). Compare Portuguese tingir and Spanish teñir.

• Rhymes: -iɾ
• Hyphenation: tin‧gir

tinguir (first-person singular present tingo, first-person singular preterite tinguín, past participle tinguido)
tinguir (first-person singular present tingo, first-person singular preterite tinguim or tingui, past participle tinguido, short past participle tinto, reintegrationist norm)

1. to dye

• tinta
• tinto

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