chocallo
Galician
A peliqueiro (a Galician carnivalesque character) wearing chocas or chocallos ("cowbells").
Etymology
from choca + -allo, from Proto-Celtic *klokkos (“bell”): compare Welsh cloch, Irish clog.[1]
Cognate with Portuguese chocalho.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t͡ʃoˈkaʎo̝/
References
- “chocallo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “chocallo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “chocallo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
- Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983–1991) “chocallo”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
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