vao

vao

1. genitive singular of vagu

From Old Galician-Portuguese vao, from Latin vadum (“ford”), from Proto-Italic *waðom, from Proto-Indo-European *wh₂dʰóm, from *weh₂dʰ-.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbao̯/

vao m (plural vaos)

1. ford
2. sandbar
3. (anatomy) flank (flesh between the last rib and the hip)

   Synonyms: illar, illarga

4. (nautical) space in between two ribs

• Bao
• Vao
• Vaos

• “vao” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “vao” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “vao” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “vao” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “vao” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(ma-)baqəʀu, from Proto-Austronesian *(ma-)baqəʀuh.

vao

1. new (recently made or created), novel

Inherited from Latin vadum, from Proto-Italic *waðom, from Proto-Indo-European *wadʰom.

• (Galicia) IPA^(key): /ˈβa.o/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈβa.ʊ/
• Rhymes: -ao

vao m (plural vaos)

1. ford; shallow (part of a river shallow enough to be crossed by foot)

• non achar vao

• Galician: vao
• Portuguese: vau

vao

1. thread

• http://www.languageinindia.com/feb2013/zouphonologyfinal.pdf