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Chichewa
Pronunciation
Noun
galú class 1a (plural agalú class 2)
- dog
Latvian
Noun
galu m
- inflection of gals:
- accusative/instrumental singular
- genitive plural
Lingala
Etymology
From French gallium.
Noun
galu class 9 (plural galu class 10, colloquial plural bagalu class 2)
- (chemistry) gallium
Samoan
Etymology
From Proto-Polynesian *ŋalu (“mounting wave, ocean wave”) (compare with Hawaiian nalu, Maori ngaru, Tahitian ʻaru, Tongan ngalu), from Proto-Oceanic *ŋalun (“mountain wave”), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qalun (“long rolling wave; swell”) (compare with Malay alun, Tagalog álon).
Noun
galu
- wave
References
- ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “galu.1”, in POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online
- ^ Austronesian Comparative Dictionary
- ^ Ross, Malcolm D., Pawley, Andrew, Osmond, Meredith (2008) The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic, volume 2: The Physical Environment, Canberra: Australian National University, →ISBN, page 99