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English
Etymology
From mile. These areas were originally divided up by square miles.
Noun
mailo (plural mailos)
- In Uganda, a land tenure system similar to freehold, in which political nobles were accredited land at the start of the 20th century, and passed it on hereditarily, without possibility of the ownership being contested.
Anagrams
Bikol Central
Etymology
From ma- + ilo.
Verb
mailo
- to be orphaned
See also
Galician
Etymology
From the contraction (through sandhi assimilation /s l/ > /ll/ > /l/) of conjunction mais (“and”) + masculine article o (from Vulgar Latin *illu).
Pronunciation
Contraction
mailo m (feminine maila, masculine plural mailos, feminine plural mailas)
- and the
Miña nai e maila túa quedan no río berrando por culpa dunha galiña que tiña amores cun galo. (folk song)- My mother and yours are shouting each other by the river, because of a hen that had a love affair with a rooster
1823, Pedro Boado Sánchez, Diálogo entre dos Labradores gallegos afligidos:E may-lo Alcalde habíase d’alegrar, qu’el tamen está picado, qu’ainda n-hay ano é medio cabal que lle morreo á muller, é tamen pagou á farda como cada fillo de veciño.- And the mayor would also be glad, because he's also piqued, because there's not a whole year and a half that his wife died and he also paid the burden as every mother's son
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