vasalo

Borrowed from French vassal, Polish wasal, from English vassal, German Vasall and Russian васса́л (vassál).

• IPA^(key): [vaˈsalo]
• Rhymes: -alo
• Hyphenation: va‧sa‧lo

vasalo (accusative singular vasalon, plural vasaloj, accusative plural vasalojn)

1. vassal

From Old Galician-Portuguese vassalo, from Medieval Latin vassallus (“manservant, domestic, retainer”) (attested locally at least since the 10th century), from Gaulish uassos (“young man, squire”).

• IPA^(key): /baˈsalo̝/

vasalo m (plural vasalos)

1. (historical) vassal; subject
   • 1275, M. Lucas Álvarez, P. Lucas Domínguez, editors, El monasterio de San Clodio do Ribeiro en la Edad Media: estudio y documentos, Sada / A Coruña: Edicións do Castro, page 366:

     et seermus nos Lourenz'Aras et Marina Martin vosos vasalos et sen outro Señor

     and we, Lourenzo Aras and Mariña Martín, will be your vassals and not of any other lord

• Vasalo

• vasalaxe

• “vassalo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “vasalo” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “vasalo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “vasalo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.

Borrowed from Esperanto vasalo, English vassal, French vassal, German Vasall, Italian vassallo, Russian васса́л (vassál), Spanish vasallo.

• IPA^(key): /vaˈsa.lo/

vasalo (plural vasali)

1. vassal