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

• vassalo (reintegrationist)

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

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “vassalo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “vasalo”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “vasalo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “vasalo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

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