mâcllo

Franco-Provençal

Alternative forms

Alternative forms

• mô̱lyou, mô̱lou (Bressan)
• masclo (Old Dauphinois)
• maclo (Old Lyonnais)
• maclo (Piemontais)
• macllo (Valdôtain)
• mâhcllo (ORB, narrow)
  • mahquio (Piemontais)
  • mâhlo (Valaisan)

Etymology

Inherited from Latin masculus.

Noun

mâcllo m (plural mâcllos) (ORB, broad)

1. male (non-human)

References

• mâle [1] in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
• mâcllo in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

Further information

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 1078: “il maschio e la femmina” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
• ALF: Atlas Linguistique de la France^[1] [Linguistic Atlas of France] – map 804: “mâle” – on lig-tdcge.imag.fr
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “mascŭlus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 6/1: Mabile–Mephitis, page 425