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Galician
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese acola (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Vulgar Latin *eccum illāc, from Latin eccum + illāc. Cognate with Portuguese acolá and Spanish acullá.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /akoˈla/
- Rhymes: -a
- Hyphenation: a‧co‧lá
Adverb
acolá
- over there
- 20th century, traditional humorous song:
acolá enriba, non sei onde,
tópase non sei qué santo,
que se gana non sei qué,
por rezarlle non sei canto.- over there, I don't know exactly where,
there's a certain saint
and you gain I don't know what
when you pray I don't know which prayers
- Synonym: aló
- yonder; beyond
- Synonym: alén
References
- Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “acola”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “acola”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “acolá”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “acolá”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “acolá”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
Portuguese
Etymology
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese acola (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Vulgar Latin *eccum illāc, from Latin eccum + illāc. Cognate with Galician acolá and Spanish acullá. cf. also Romanian acolo.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -a
- Hyphenation: a‧co‧lá
Adverb
acolá
- over there
- Synonym: lá
- Espere acolá. ― Wait over there
- yonder; beyond
Spanish
Verb
acolá
- second-person singular voseo imperative of acolar