Rick McCallister wrote:
"pujar, also puyar can mean "to goad" as with a cattle
prod. This seems to be a transitory meaning between the ancient and present
meanings"
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The etymology of pujar/puyar is troublesome and
has not yet been explained satisfactorily. Cf. Baist, I, 704 ; Ford, Sibilants,
pp. 121, 138; Puyar and its inflected forms occur frequently in Old Aragonese
texts. (The last I heard, Puyar was from vulgar Latin
*podiare < lat. podium). Are we talking about the
same word?
Ishinan