valo

Borrowed from Latin vallis, English vale/valley, etc.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvalo/

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• Rhymes: -alo
• Syllabification: va‧lo

valo (accusative singular valon, plural valoj, accusative plural valojn)

1. (geography) valley, vale

From Proto-Finnic *valo, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *waĺɜ. Cognates include dialectal Finnish valu (“light”), Estonian valu (“light”) (poetic), Erzya валдо (valdo, “light”), Komi-Permyak волявны (voľavny, “shine”) and Hungarian világ (“light”). Compare also Finnish valkea (“white, fire, bright”), Estonian valgus (“light”), from *walke.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋɑlo/, [ˈʋɑ̝lo̞]
• Rhymes: -ɑlo
• Syllabification^(key): va‧lo
• Hyphenation^(key): va‧lo

valo

1. light (visible electromagnetic radiation)
2. a light, a light source, e.g. a lamp or a signal light

• “valo”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 4 July 2023

From Latin vallum (“wall”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈbalo̝/

valo m (plural valos)

1. wall, rampart or fence which separates two pieces of land or a house perimeter

   Synonyms: cerca, cerrado, muro, valado

• valado
• valar
• Valos

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “valo”, 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), “valo”, 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), “valo”, 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), “valo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “valo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

valo

1. first-person singular present indicative of valar

Borrowed from Esperanto valo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈva.lo/

valo (plural vali)

1. (geography) valley, vale

From Proto-Finnic *valo. Cognates include Finnish valo and Estonian valu.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈʋɑlo/, [ˈʋɑɫo̞ˑ]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈʋɑlo/, [ˈʋɑɫo̞ˑ]
• Rhymes: -ɑlo
• Hyphenation: va‧lo

valo

1. (Soikkola, Hevaha) light (visible radiation)

Related to Votic valo. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈʋɑlo/, [ˈʋɑɫo̞ˑ]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈʋɑlo/, [ˈʋɑɫo̞ˑ]
• Rhymes: -ɑlo
• Hyphenation: va‧lo

valo

1. dung, manure

• tae

• V. I. Junus (1936), Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka‎^[2], Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 82
• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971), Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 637

From Proto-Finnic *valo. Cognates include Finnish valo and Estonian valu.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋɑlo/
• Hyphenation: va‧lo

valo (genitive valon, partitive valuo)

1. (North Karelian) light

• P. M. Zaykov et al. (2015), “свет”, in Venäjä-Viena Šanakirja [Russian-Viena Karelian Dictionary], →ISBN

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *walu, from Proto-Austronesian *walu.

valo

1. eight

From Latin vallum.

• Rhymes: -alu
• Hyphenation: va‧lo

valo m (plural valos)

1. entrenchment, ditch (a fortification constructed of trenches)

• “valo”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “valo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

• (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA^(key): /ˈvɑlo/, [ˈvɑɫo]
• Rhymes: -ɑlo
• Hyphenation: va‧lo

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) Compare Ingrian valo (“manure, dung”).

valo

1. manure, dung

From Proto-Finnic *valo.

valo

1. light

• Hallap, V.; Adler, E.; Grünberg, S.; Leppik, M. (2012), “valo”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn