tueco
Spanish
Etymology
Uncertain, perhaps onomatopoeic. Compare Portuguese toco (“stump”) and Galician toco (“burrow, stump”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtweko/ [ˈt̪we.ko]
- Rhymes: -eko
- Syllabification: tue‧co
Noun
tueco m (plural tuecos)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “tueco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024