escalo

See also: escaló

Catalan

Verb

escalo

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Galician

Escalo

Alternative forms

• escallo

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Galician-Portuguese escoallo (15th century), probably from Latin squalus. Cf. also Portuguese escalho, escalheiro.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /esˈkalo̝/

Noun

escalo m (plural escalos)

1. the Northern Iberian chub ()
   • 1438, X. Ferro Couselo (ed.), A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI. Vigo: Galaxia, page 125:

     que desen cada canbo de scoallos por duas brancas, et que fose en cada canbo çinco escoallos

     they shall pay for each group of chubs two brancas, and each group should be made of five chubs

References

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “escoall”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
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• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “escalo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

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Portuguese

Verb

escalo

1. first-person singular present indicative of escalar

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Spanish

Verb

escalo

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of escalar.