gofio

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish gofio, from Guanche [Term?].

Noun

gofio (uncountable)

1. (cooking) Flour made from roasted grains or other starchy plants, a staple in the Canary Islands.

   Coordinate term: tsamba

Further reading

• gofio on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Spanish

FWOTD – 16 May 2016

Gofio flour with bread

Alternative forms

• goffio

Etymology

Borrowed from Guanche [Term?].

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡofjo/ [ˈɡo.fjo]
• Rhymes: -ofjo
• Syllabification: go‧fio

Noun

gofio m (uncountable)

1. (cooking, Canary Islands) gofio (flour made from roasted grains)

   Synonyms: harina tostada, ñaco

   • 2006, Fernando Carnero Lorenzo, Juan Sebastián Nuez Yánez, Canarias-Uruguay-Canarias: el papel de los emigrantes canarios en el tejido empresarial de Canarias y Uruguay, Ediciones IDEA, →ISBN, page 232:

     Me crié en la tahona, antes no se tomaba ni café ni cocoa, cuando llegaba de la escuela lo primero que hacía era agarrar una tacita y comerme el gofio seco, una taza de leche con gofio y azúcar, esa era la merienda de todos los niños.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Further reading

• gofio on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es
• “gofio”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɔvjɔ/

Verb

gofio

1. Soft mutation of cofio (“to remember”).

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
cofio	gofio	nghofio	chofio
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.