duela

From du (“he/she/it has it”) +‎ -ela (“that”).

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• IPA^(key): /duela/
• Rhymes: -ela
• Hyphenation: du‧e‧la

duela (not comparable)

1. ago

   Duela bi urte ezagutu genuen elkar. ― We met two years ago. (literally, “We met that it's been two years.”)

Often found in the form orain duela. Precedes the time period, roughly as a preposition.

duela

1. A relative form of du (“he/she/it has it”) with -ela (“that”).

   Mikelek liburua duela dakit. ― I know that Mikel has the book.

• “duela”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], Euskaltzaindia
• “duela”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

duela

1. inflection of duelar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

From duel +‎ -a.

a duela (third-person singular present duelează, past participle duelat) 1st conjugation

1. to duel

duela

1. inflection of dolar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative
2. inflection of doler:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Borrowed from Old French douelle, diminutive of doue, from Latin doga. Compare Portuguese aduela, Galician doela.

duela f (plural duelas)

1. stave (of barrels, casks, etc.)
2. (Mexico) floorboard

• “duela”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

From Proto-Chatino *kwela, from Proto-Zapotecan *kw-ella.

duela

1. fish

• Sullivant, J. Ryan (2016 October) “Appendix: Reintroducing Teojomulco Chatino”, in International Journal of American Linguistics‎