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Galician
Etymology
From Latin *callicula (“little road, little street”), diminutive of callis, or from canalicula (“little channel”). Compare Spanish calleja and canaleja.
Pronunciation
Noun
calella f (plural calellas)
- ravine, defile
- Synonym: quenlla
- narrow way
- Synonym: congostra
- alley
- 1339, M. Lucas Alvarez; P. P. Lucas Domínguez (ed.), San Pedro de Ramirás. Un monasterio femenino en la Edad Media. Colección diplomática. Santiago: Publicacións de Caixa Galicia, page 488:
do outro cabo parten per la callela que uen do Penedo pera as cassas do abbade de Cellanoua et entesta en o eirado dante a torre do conçello- on the other extreme they depart from the alley that comes from Penedo to the houses of the abbot of Celanova, and ends in the plaza before the council's tower
References
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “calella”, 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), “calella”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “calella”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “canella”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN