-alo

See also: Appendix:Variations of "alo"

Esperanto

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈalo/
  • Rhymes: -alo
  • Hyphenation: a‧lo

Suffix

-alo

  1. (organic chemistry) Forms the names of aldehydes.
    ‎metano (“methane”) + ‎-alo → ‎metanalo (“formaldehyde”)
    ‎etano (“ethane”) + ‎-alo → ‎etanalo (“acetaldehyde”)

Finnish

Etymology

The reason for the -a- is not well understood.

Suffix

-alo

  1. alternative form of -lo

Usage notes

Attached only to e-stems.

Derived terms

Finnish terms suffixed with -alo
onkalo
vartalo

Romani

Etymology

Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit -𑀆𑀮 (-āla),[1] from Sanskrit -आल (-āla).[2]

Suffix

-alo

  1. Added to a noun to form an adjective meaning "having the quality of".
    ‎baxt (“luck”) + ‎-alo → ‎baxtalo (“lucky”)

Derived terms

Romani adjectives suffixed with -alo
baxtalo
melalo
rupalo
samtalo
śilalo

References

  1. ^ Boretzky, Norbert, Igla, Birgit (1994) “-aló”, in Wörterbuch Romani-Deutsch-Englisch für den südosteuropäischen Raum : mit einer Grammatik der Dialektvarianten [Romani-German-English dictionary for the Southern European region] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, pages 52-53
  2. ^ Yaron Matras (2002) “Historical and linguistic origins”, in Romani: A Linguistic Introduction‎[1], Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 42

Serbo-Croatian

Suffix

-alo (Cyrillic spelling -ало)

  1. Suffix appended to words to create a neuter noun, usually denoting senses or objects, used as a pejorative or as an abstract noun.

See also

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