mailo

English

Etymology

From mile. These areas were originally divided up by square miles.

Noun

mailo (plural mailos)

1. 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

• Maoli, maoli

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Galician

Etymology

From the contraction (through sandhi assimilation /s l/ > /ll/ > /l/) of conjunction máis (“and”) + masculine article o (from Vulgar Latin *illu).

Contraction

mailo m (feminine maila, masculine plural mailos, feminine plural mailas)

1. 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 [the] yours are shouting each other by the river, because of a hen that had a love affair with a rooster