valigia
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from a language of Northern Italy (cf. Venetian valís, Lombard valiza), from Medieval Latin valesia, valixia, from Late Latin valisia, possibly from Gaulish *valisia (“leather bag”), from Proto-Celtic *wal- (“to enclose, surround”), from Proto-Indo-European *welH-.[1] Or, possibly from Arabic وَلِيهَة (walīha, “large bag”).[2]
Related to French valise and Spanish valija, though it is unclear if either term was borrowed from the other.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
valigia f (plural valigie or valige)
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
References edit
- ^ “valigia”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
- ^ Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN