cuello
See also: Cuello
Aragonese
Etymology
Noun
cuello m (plural cuellos)
References
- Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002) “cuello”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN
Old Spanish
Etymology
Inherited from Latin collum. Cognate with Old Galician-Portuguese colo and Old French col.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈku͡eʎo/
Noun
cuello m (plural cuellos)
- neck
- c. 1200, Almeric, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 5r. a:
- Corrio eſau aencuẽtro de ſo ermano. E abraçol & echo ſobre ſo cuello el braço.
- Esau ran to meet with his brother, then he hugged him and put his arm over his neck.
- Idem, f. 61r. a.
- Eſtas palabras hyua diziendo por la uilla de ih̃r̃l̃m e yua cõ la cadena enel cuello
- He said these words throughout the city of Jerusalem while walking with the chain around his neck
- Eſtas palabras hyua diziendo por la uilla de ih̃r̃l̃m e yua cõ la cadena enel cuello
Descendants
- Spanish: cuello (see there for further descendants)
Spanish
Etymology
Inherited from Old Spanish cuello, from Latin collum. Cognate with English collar, French cou, Italian collo, Galician and Portuguese colo.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkweʝo/ [ˈkwe.ʝo] (most of Spain and Latin America)
- IPA(key): /ˈkweʎo/ [ˈkwe.ʎo] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- IPA(key): /ˈkweʃo/ [ˈkwe.ʃo] (Buenos Aires and environs)
- IPA(key): /ˈkweʒo/ [ˈkwe.ʒo] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)
Audio (Spain): (file)
- Rhymes: -eʝo (most of Spain and Latin America)
- Rhymes: -eʎo (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- Rhymes: -eʃo (Buenos Aires and environs)
- Rhymes: -eʒo (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)
- Syllabification: cue‧llo
Noun
cuello m (plural cuellos)
- neck (part of body connecting the head and the torso)
- collar (part of a shirt fitting around the neck)
Derived terms
- a voz en cuello
- acollar
- alzacuello
- con el agua al cuello
- cuelliblanco
- cuellilargo
- cuellinegro
- cuellirrojo
- cuello alto
- cuello de botella
- cuello de cisne
- cuello de pajarita
- cuello del útero
- cuello uterino
- cuello vuelto
- hasta el cuello
- levantar el cuello
- meter cuello
- tiracuello
Related terms
Descendants
See also
Further reading
- “cuello”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024