mâcllo

Franco-Provençal

Alternative forms

mâhcllo (ORB serrée) mô̱lyou, mô̱lou (Bressan) masclo, mascle (Old Dauphinois) môlou (Jurassien) maclo (Old Lyonnais) mâhlo (Valaisan) maclo, mahquio (Valsoanin) macllio (Valdôtain)

Etymology

Inherited from Latin masculus.

Noun

mâcllo m (plural mâcllos) (ORB large)

1. male (non-human)

References

• mâle [1] in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
• mâcllo in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

Further information

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 1078: “il maschio e la femmina” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
• ALF: Atlas Linguistique de la France^[1] [Linguistic Atlas of France] – map 804: “mâle” – on lig-tdcge.imag.fr
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “mascŭlus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 6/1: Mabile–Mephitis, page 425