asexar

• assejar, ajejar (reintegrationist)
• acexar, axexar

Attested since 1370 (assejar). Either from Vulgar Latin *assediare (“to besiege”) —from Latin obsidium (“siege”)— or from Latin īnsidiārī (“to lurk, to ambush”), under the influence of the synonym aseitar —from Latin assectārī (“to escort”)—.^[1] Or alternatively, and given the absence of this word in Portuguese, from Old French assiéger (“to besiege”).^[2]

• IPA^(key): /aseˈʃaɾ/

asexar (first-person singular present asexo, first-person singular preterite asexei, past participle asexado)

1. (transitive) to skulk, to lurk, to spy, to stalk
   • 1370, Ramón Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, page 461:

     Et andaua asseiando a Éytor, hu veería jeyto ou ora pera o matar.

     He was stalking Hector, trying to find the way or opportunity to kill him

2. (intransitive) to lurk

   Synonyms: agaitar, aseitar, esculcar, espiar, espreitar

   Á porta das venturas asexan as desgrazas

   Misfortunes lurk at the door of the fortunes

• asexo (“spying”)

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “asseiar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “asseia”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “asexar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “asexar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “asexar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN