souriço

Etymology
. Early medieval /ow/ implies an earlier */aw/, and the ending is presumably to be identified with. The initial element can therefore be reconstructed as */sawɾ-/, which may correspond to. The semantics seem fitting enough for a cured meat. In any case the term lacks any Romance cognates ( being a borrowing from Galician or Portuguese) which – if the foregoing etymology is correct – may point to a localised borrowing via.

Noun

 * 1) chorizo