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valigia

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Italian

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Etymology

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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-.[1] Or, possibly from Arabic وَلِيهَة (walīha, large bag).[2]

Related to French valise and Spanish valija, though it is unclear if either term was borrowed from the other.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /vaˈli.d͡ʒa/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -idʒa
  • Hyphenation: va‧lì‧gia

Noun

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valigia f (plural valigie or valige)

  1. suitcase
    Synonym: bagaglio
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Descendants

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  • Albanian: valixhe
  • Ladino: validja
  • Slavomolisano: baliža
  • Spanish: valija

References

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  1. ^ valigia”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
  2. ^ Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN

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