alca
Afar edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
alcá f
- childbirth of a camel
Declension edit
Declension of alcá | ||||||||||||||||||
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absolutive | alcá | |||||||||||||||||
predicative | alcá | |||||||||||||||||
subjective | alcá | |||||||||||||||||
genitive | alcá | |||||||||||||||||
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References edit
- E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985) “alca”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN
Italian edit
Etymology edit
From New Latin, from Old Norse alka (“auk”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
alca f (plural alche)
Anagrams edit
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
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Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
alca f (plural alcas)
Usage notes edit
- Feminine nouns beginning with stressed /ˈa/ like this one regularly take the singular articles el and un, usually reserved for masculine nouns.
- el alca, un alca
- They maintain the usual feminine singular articles la and una if an adjective intervenes between the article and the noun.
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “alca”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
- alca on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia es