escalo – Galician noun declension

Galician noun forms of escalo

Noun: escalo
Gender: m Hyphenation:
Singular mescalo
Plural mescalos

Sample Sentences

  • que desen cada canbo de scoallos por duas brancas, et que fose en cada canbo çinco escoallos (they shall pay for each group of chubs two brancas, and each group should be made of five chubs) [1438, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 125:]
  • faredes hun estanco adonde esta a puça e, el feito, darnos edes en cada vn anno huna duzia d'escoalos (you'll make a press where the river pool is and, it done, you'll give us a dozen chubs each year) [1499, M. Lucas Álvarez, P. Lucas Domínguez, editors, El monasterio de San Clodio do Ribeiro en la Edad Media: estudio y documentos, Sada / A Coruña: Edicións do Castro, page 739:]

Nouns inflected like escalo

miligramo, mililitro, acontecemento, urodelo, ancoradoiro, vimieiro, serrón, sesego, sedeño, iceberg, sarrio, sabuio, sabugo, sabujo, sabuxo, sabelo, sangue, saibro, saltón, salmón, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese escoallo, escoalo (attested since the 15th century in Galician documents), probably from Latin squalus. Cf. also Portuguese escalho, escalheiro. See: Latin Nouns 'squalus'.

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