truja

Inherited from Old Catalan truja, from Late Latin troia, of uncertain origin, but possibly

• from Latin (porcum de) Troia (“(hog of) Troy”), after the Trojan horse,
• or alternatively of Celtic origin, from a Gaulish root *trogja, from a root meaning “to pull” and thence also “fertile," Proto-Celtic *trāglo-, for which see Latin traho.
• or possibly simply of imitative origin, from the sound of a pig's grunt.

Compare Occitan truèja, French truie.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈtɾu.ʒə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈtɾu.d͡ʒa]

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truja f (plural truges)

1. sow (female pig)

   Synonym: porca

• “truja” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “truja”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007