coyer

• Homophone: coir

coyer

1. comparative form of coy: more coy

• Corey, Royce

• cuyer (Western Asturias)
• cuyyer (Brañas)
• cocher (Teberga, Palacios del Sil, West)
• cucher (Somiedu, Miranda, Babia, Ḷḷaciana, Ibias, Valle Gordo)
• coer (Candamu, Muros del Nalón, Pravia)
• acoer (Pravia)
• cuer (Tinéu)
• cuyir (Central Asturias)
• cuir (Central Asturias)

Inherited from Old Leonese coller from Latin colligere, present active infinitive of colligō (“I collect, I gather”). Compare Spanish coger, Galician coller, Portuguese colher.

• IPA^(key): /koˈʝeɾ/, [koˈʝeɾ]

coyer

1. to pick, take
2. to harvest, collect

   Foron a coyer el maíz

   They went to collect the corn

3. to fit, enter (to be able to be contained (by something; regardless of whether space or volume remains))

   L'almariu nun cueye pequí

   The wardrobe doesn't fit thorugh here

   ¡Equí nun cueye más xente!

   There's no room for more people here!

4. to head, to make one's way, to head over

   Coyeron pa la ilesia

   They headed over to the church

   Coyeron pela sienda pa marchar

   They made their way through the path to leave

5. to get water into one's shoes

   Ten cudiáu que tal agua parao y vas coyer les madreñes

   Be careful, the water is still and you're going to soak your clogs

6. to run over

   Coyólu un coche

   A car ran him over

7. to board (a vehicle, especially public transit)

• coyer el corazón nun puñu
• mala torca coya
• coyer fríu
• coyer y
• la de coyer
• nun haber per onde coyelu

• acoyer
• collecha
• escoyer
• recoyer