kualo

• cual, cualo, kual, (obsolete) qual

Inherited from Old Spanish qual, from Latin quālis (“which”).

kualo m (Hebrew spelling קואלו, plural kualos, feminine kuala, feminine plural kualas)^[1]

1. (interrogative) what? [16th c.]

   Coordinate term: ke

   • 2006, Matilda Koén-Sarano, Por el plazer de kontar‎^[1], Nur Afakot, page 145:

     Le demandí kon la bava a la boka: "Um!… I de kualo es?"
     "De pera", me disho Viktoria.
     Yo al gostí… Estava maraviyoza.

     I asked her mouthwateringly: ‘Mmm…! What is this?’
     ‘Pear’, Viktoria told me. To me, the taste was… wonderful.

2. (relative) what; (that) which [ca. 1510^[2]]
   • 2005, Aki Yerushalayim‎^[2], volumes 26–28, page 60:

     Se torno el haham dezesperado a su kaza i komio kon muncha ansia, despues de lo kualo metio su vestido blanko de Yom Kippur i entro al kal.

     The sagely yet desperate rabbi returned home and ate anxiously, after which he put on white clothes for Yom Kippur and entered the synagogue.

   • 2013, Myriam Moscona, Jacobo Sefamí with Martín Fierro, José Hernández, Por mi boka: Textos de la diáspora sefardí en ladino‎^[3], Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial México, →ISBN, page 222:

     Aki me meto a kantar yo
     al tanyer de la gitara,
     kualo al ombre ke lo apanya
     un penserio ingradesido,
     bilbiliko solitario
     kon el dizir se konsola.

     Here I get involved in singing
     by playing the guitar,
     which in the man holding it
     [there’s] a growing concern;
     lonely little kid
     who consoles himself by speaking.