caval
English
Derived terms
Dalmatian
Alternative forms
- cavul, kavul
Etymology
From Late Latin caballus (“horse”), from Latin caballus (“pack horse”).
Noun
caval m
- horse
- Matteo Bartoli, Il Dalmatico :
- el caval cuar per la cal
- the horse runs through the street
- el caval cuar per la cal
Istriot
Etymology
From Late Latin caballus (“horse”), from Latin caballus (“pack horse”).
Occitan
Etymology
From Old Occitan caval, from Late Latin caballus (“horse”), from Latin caballus (“pack horse”), of Gaulish origin.
Pronunciation
Related terms
References
- ALF: Atlas Linguistique de la France [Linguistic Atlas of France] – map 269: “cheval.. aux” – on lig-tdcge.imag.fr
- Müller, Daniela. 2011. Developments of the lateral in Occitan dialects and their Romance and cross-linguistic context. Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Toulouse.
- Oliviéri, Michèle & Sauzet, Patrick. 2016. Southern Gallo-Romance (Occitan). In Ledgeway, Adam & Maiden, Martin (eds.), The Oxford guide to the Romance languages, 319–349. Oxford University Press.
- Müller 2011: 43. Likewise for the Auvergnat pronunciation.
- First variant per Müller (2011: 43) and Oliviéri & Sauzet (2016: 325), the latter pointing out that it is a borrowing of French cheval. Other two variants per the ALF, which also shows the first variant.
Old Occitan
Etymology
From Late Latin caballus (“horse”), from Latin caballus (“pack horse”), of Gaulish origin.
Descendants
- Occitan: caval
Romagnol
Alternative forms
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish قوال (kaval).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kaˈval/
Declension
Further reading
- caval in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
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