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Kamba
Noun
chalo class 3
- caravan
- caravans
Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek χαλάω (khaláō).
Pronunciation
Verb
chalō (present infinitive chalāre, perfect active chalāvī, supine chalātum); first conjugation
- to let down, allow to hang free
- to loosen
- to slacken
Conjugation
Descendants
References
- “chalo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- chalo in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- chalo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Old High German
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *kalwaz (“naked, bald”), from Proto-Indo-European *gelH- (“naked, bald”).
Cognate with Old Saxon kalo (“bald”), Middle Low German kāl, kāle (“bald”), Middle Dutch cāle, cālū (“bald”), Old English calu (“bald”), Old Frisian kale (“baldness”), Latin calvus (“bald”), Old Church Slavonic голъ (golŭ, “nude”), Russian го́лый (gólyj), Sanskrit कुल्व (kulva, “bald”), Persian کل (kal), Avestan 𐬐𐬀𐬎𐬭𐬎𐬎𐬀 (kauruua, “bald”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈxa.lo/, /kxa.lo/, /kʰa.lo/
Adjective
chalo
- bald
Descendants
Spanish
Verb
chalo
- first-person singular present indicative of chalar