sostreure

Meaning

  1. (Balearic, Central, Valencia, transitive) to remove, to relieve, to take away
  2. (Balearic, Central, Valencia, transitive) to subtract
  3. (Balearic, Central, Valencia, transitive) to steal
  4. (Balearic, Central, Valencia, pronominal) to steal away, to get away (from a), to evade, to resist

Pronounced as (IPA)
[susˈtɾɛw.ɾə]
Etymology

In summary

Borrowed from Latin subtrahere (“to remove”); adapted to inherited treure and with the first syllable altered by analogy with words like sosllevar and soscavar, which contain a prefix derived from the archaic preposition sots.

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