Wiktionary

galu

See also: gaļu

Chichewa edit

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

galú class 1a (plural agalú class 2)

  1. dog

Latvian edit

Noun edit

galu m

  1. inflection of gals:
    1. accusative/instrumental singular
    2. genitive plural

Lingala edit

Etymology edit

From French gallium.

Noun edit

galu class 9 (plural galu class 10, colloquial plural bagalu class 2)

  1. (chemistry) gallium

Samoan edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Polynesian *ŋalu (“mounting wave, ocean wave”) (compare with Hawaiian nalu, Maori ngaru, Tahitian ʻaru, Tongan ngalu), from Proto-Oceanic *ŋalun (“mountain wave”), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qalun (“long rolling wave; swell”) (compare with Malay alun, Tagalog álon).[1][2][3]

Noun edit

galu

  1. wave

References edit

  1. ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “galu.1”, in POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online
  2. ^ Austronesian Comparative Dictionary
  3. ^ Ross, Malcolm D., Pawley, Andrew, Osmond, Meredith (2008) The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic, volume 2: The Physical Environment, Canberra: Australian National University, →ISBN, page 99
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