eissalot

Old Occitan

Alternative forms

exalot, issalot
eissiroc, eyssiroc, siroc, eissaloc(h), exaloc(h)

Etymology

Likely from Massalian Ancient Greek *ἐξαλώτης (*exalṓtēs), from ἔξαλος (éxalos, “out of the sea”). Alternatively, and less likely, from Arabic شرق‎ (šarq, “east”). The form eissalot is one of the oldest recorded (1291) and corresponds closely to the Greek word. Subsequently there developed variants showing the suffix -oc.

Noun

eissalot m (oblique plural eissalots, nominative singular eissalots, nominative plural eissalot)

wind blowing from the southeast

Descendants

→ Catalan: xaloc
→ Italian: scirocco

References

Kahane, Henry R.; Kahane, Renée; Tietze, Andreas (1958) The Lingua Franca in the Levant: Turkish Nautical Terms of Italian and Greek Origin, Urbana: University of Illinois, page 406 Nr. 603

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