igar

• enguar, iguar

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese iguar (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin aequo.

• IPA^(key): [iˈɣaɾ]

igar (first-person singular present aro, first-person singular preterite iguei, past participle arido)

1. to make equal, to equalize
   • 1350, Kelvin M. Parker (ed.), Historia Troyana. Santiago: Instituto "Padre Sarmiento", page 52:

     que me dizẽ Palas, sõo deesa de batalla, et corro mõte et caço Et quando d'alo veño, tã fremosa me paro que nẽgũa d'elas nõ ygoaria comygo en paresçer ben

     They call me Palas, I'm goddess of the battle, and I roam the woods and hunt, and when I come from there I'm so beautiful that none of them would be my equal in looking good

• Note: ig- are changed to igu- before front vowels (e).

• “iguar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “ygoar” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “igar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “igar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “iguar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
• “enguar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Back-formation from -igar. Considered a modified version of agar.

igar (present igas, past igis, future igos, conditional igus, imperative igez)

1. (transitive) to make, cause, render