carballo

Meaning

1. (masculine) oak
2. (masculine) oak
3. (masculine) oak
4. (masculine) oak
5. (masculine) oak
6. (masculine) oak
7. (masculine) oakwood

Pronounced as (IPA)

/kaɾˈbaɟo/

Etymology

Cognate with Latin: curvus

Cognate with Portuguese: carvalho

Cognate with Asturian: carbayu

In summary

From Old Galician-Portuguese carvallo, also attested in local Medieval Latin document since the 8th century; from carba + -allo. Further etymology uncertain: from a substrate language, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kr̥-wós (compare Latin curvus, "bent"). Cognate with Portuguese carvalho and Asturian carbayu.