chocallo
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A peliqueiro (a Galician carnivalesque character) wearing chocas or chocallos ("cowbells").
Galician
Alternative forms
Etymology
from choca + -allo, from Proto-Celtic *klokkos (“bell”): compare Welsh cloch, Irish clog.[1]
Cognate with Portuguese chocalho.
Pronunciation
Noun
chocallo m (plural chocallos)
References
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “chocallo”, 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), “chocallo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “chocallo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
- ^ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “chocallo”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos