chalo

See also: chaló and chało

Kamba

Noun

chalo class 3

  1. caravan
  2. caravans

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek χαλάω (khaláō).

Pronunciation

Verb

chalō (present infinitive chalāre, perfect active chalāvī, supine chalātum); first conjugation

  1. to let down, allow to hang free
  2. to loosen
  3. to slacken

Conjugation

Descendants

  • Catalan: calar
  • Friulian: calâ
  • Italian: calare
  • Lombard: calà
  • Neapolitan: calare
  • Occitan: calar
  • Piedmontese: calé
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: calar
  • Sardinian: cabai
  • Sicilian: calari
  • Spanish: callar, calar
    • Sicilian: cagghiari

References

  • chalo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • "chalo", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • chalo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Old High German

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *kalwaz (naked, bald), from Proto-Indo-European *gelH- (naked, bald).

Cognate with Old Saxon kalo (bald), Middle Low German kāl, kāle (bald), Middle Dutch cāle, cālū (bald), Old English calu (bald), Old Frisian kale (baldness), Latin calvus (bald), Old Church Slavonic голъ (golŭ, nude), Russian го́лый (gólyj), Sanskrit कुल्व (kulva, bald), Persian کل (kal), Avestan 𐬐𐬀𐬎𐬭𐬎𐬎𐬀 (kauruua, bald).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈxa.lo/, /kxa.lo/, /kʰa.lo/

Adjective

chalo

  1. bald

Descendants

  • Middle High German: kal

Spanish

Verb

chalo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of chalar