trangallo

Galician

Etymology

From a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia *taranica + the Galician diminutive suffix -allo; from Proto-Celtic *tarankyos (“nail”), from Proto-Indo-European *terh₁- (“to drill, rub”). Compare Old French taranche (“big iron pin”) and Middle Irish tairnge (“iron nail”).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtɾaŋˈɡaʎo̝/

Noun

trangallo m (plural trangallos)

  1. stick, peg

Derived terms

References

  1. Joan Coromines; José A. Pascual (1983–1991), “tranca”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
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