overo

Meaning

piebald, mottled

Concepts

light brown

Translations

falb

ubero

baio

Hyphenated as

o‧ve‧ro

Pronounced as (IPA)

/oˈbeɾo/

Etymology

Cognate with Portuguese: fouveiro

Cognate with Catalan: falb

Cognate with French: fauve

Cognate with German: fahl

Cognate with English: fallow

In summary

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *falvārium, from falvus, from Proto-Germanic *falwaz. Cognate with Portuguese fouveiro, Catalan falb, French fauve, and further German fahl, falb, English fallow. The expected Spanish spelling would be hovero, which is attested.