Feminine

valigia

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Hyphenated as

va‧lì‧gia

Pronounced as (IPA)

/vaˈli.d͡ʒa/

Borrowed from a language of Northern Italy (cf. Venetan valís, Lombard valiza), from Medieval Latin valesia, valixia, from Late Latin valisia, possibly from Gaulish *valisia (“leather bag”), from Proto-Celtic *wal- (“to enclose, surround”), from Proto-Indo-European *welH-. Or, possibly from Arabic وَلِيهَة (walīha, “large bag”). Related to French valise and Spanish valija, though it is unclear if either term was borrowed from the other.