mailo

English

Etymology

From mile. These areas were originally divided up by square miles.

Noun

mailo (plural mailos)

1. In Uganda, a land tenure system similar to freehold, in which political nobles were accredited land at the start of the 20th century, and passed it on hereditarily, without possibility of the ownership being contested.

Anagrams

• Maoli, maoli

Bikol Central

Etymology

From ma- +‎ ilo.

Verb

mailo

1. to be orphaned

See also

• makailo

 

Galician

Etymology

From the contraction (through sandhi assimilation /s l/ > /ll/ > /l/) of conjunction mais (“and”) + masculine article o (from Vulgar Latin *illu).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmajlo/

Contraction

mailo m (feminine maila, masculine plural mailos, feminine plural mailas)

1. and the

   Miña nai e maila túa quedan no río berrando por culpa dunha galiña que tiña amores cun galo. (folk song)

   My mother and [the] yours are shouting each other by the river, because of a hen that had a love affair with a rooster

   • 1823, Pedro Boado Sánchez, Diálogo entre dos Labradores gallegos afligidos:

     E may-lo Alcalde habíase d’alegrar, qu’el tamen está picado, qu’ainda n-hay ano é medio cabal que lle morreo á muller, é tamen pagou á farda como cada fillo de veciño.

     And the mayor would also be glad, because he's also piqued, because there's not a whole year and a half that his wife died and he also paid the burden as every mother's son

References

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “mailo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega