zopegar

Attested since the 14th century (çopegar). From zopo (“lame”).

• IPA^(key): /θopeˈɣaɾ/

zopegar (first-person singular present zopego, first-person singular preterite zopeguei, past participle zopegado)

1. (archaic) to limp

   Synonyms: coxear, manquexar

   • 1409, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Tratado de Albeitaria, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 135:

     Conteçe aas uezes que por caiom nas junturas ou nos jeollos ou nos pees ou en outra parte do Cauallo entra espina ou estrepe ou escadeẽa de madeiro et fica ontre a carne en algũa maneira daquella chaga jncha todo arredor, et as uezes toda a coyxa moormente see a espina ou a escadeẽa tange alguun neruo, que faz o Cauallo çopegar.

     It sometimes happens, unfortunately, that in the joints or the knees or the feet of in another part of the horse enters a thorn or a spike or a splinter, and then it stays in between the meat; and somehow from that wound swells everything which is around, and sometimes all the thigh, mostly when the thorn or splinter touches any nerve, which causes the horse to limp

• zopo

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “çopeg”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG