aseitar

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Galician-Portuguese asseitar, from Latin assectārī, present active infinitive of assector (“I follow”). Cognate with Portuguese asseitar and Spanish acechar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /asejˈtaɾ/

Verb

1. to lurk; to spy on; to stalk
   • c1350, Kelvin M. Parker (ed.), Historia Troyana. Santiago: Instituto Padre Sarmiento, page 90:

     Et a coobra estouo queda, et aseyto a pasariña, et aspero a, et abreu a boca hũ pouco.

     And the snake stood still, and spied on the bird, and waited for it, and opened his mouth just a bit

   Synonyms: agaitar, axexar, esculcar, espreitar

References

• Ernesto González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “aseitar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• “aseitar” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
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• “aseitar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.