quala

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from French quel, Italian quale, Spanish cual, ultimately from Latin quālis, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkwa.la/

Pronoun

quala

1. (interrogative pronoun) what sort of, what kind of, what a, like

   Quala librin vu prizas lektar?

   What kind of books do you like to read?

Derived terms

• quale (“how”)
• qualeso (“quality”)

• qualesala (“qualitative”)

See also

• qua (“who (person)”)
  • quo (“what (thing)”)
  • qui (“who (plural)”)
  • pro quo (“why”)
• ube (“where”)
• kande (“when”)
• quanta (“how much”)
  • quanto (“quantity”)

Latin

Noun

quāla

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of quālum

Old Dutch

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *kwālu, from Proto-Germanic *kwēlō.

Noun

quāla f

1. torment, pain

Inflection

Declension of quāla (feminine ō/ōn-stem noun)

case	singular	plural
nominative	quāla	quāla, quālon
accusative	quāla, quālon	quāla, quālon
genitive	quālon	quālono
dative	quālon	quālon

Descendants

• Middle Dutch: quâle
  • Dutch: kwaal
    • Afrikaans: kwaal

References

• “kwāla”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *kwālu

Noun

quāla f

1. torment

Descendants

• German: Qual