traballar
Galician
/tɾaβaˈʎaɾ/
verb
Definitions
- (intransitive) to work
- (intransitive) to struggle, strive
- (transitive) to exert an effort on something; usually referred to a field (cultivate), dough (knead), or iron (forge).
- (inflection of) traballar
- (inflection of) traballar
Etymology
Inherited from Old Portuguese traballar inherited from Latin *tripaliāre, tripālis (that which has three stakes, having three stakes, held up by three stakes, held up by three stakes pales).
Origin
Latin
tripālis
Gloss
that which has three stakes, having three stakes, held up by three stakes, held up by three stakes pales
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- *tripalium Latin
- *tripaliāre Latin
- *tripaliāre, *trẹpaliárę Latin
- trabaculare Latin
- trepalium Latin
- trepālium Latin
- tripalium Latin
- tripālis Latin
- travagliare Italian
- retravailler French
- travailler French
- teletrabajar Spanish, Castilian
- trabajador Spanish, Castilian
- trabajar Spanish, Castilian
- trabajo Spanish, Castilian
- trabalhar Portuguese
- travauz Old French
- traveillier Old French
- treballador Catalan, Valencian
- treballar Catalan, Valencian
- travail Middle French
- travailler Middle French
- traballar Old Portuguese
- trabalhar Occitan
- *trēs Proto-Italic
- trabayar Asturian
- travagiâ Ligurian
- travalur Dalmatian
- travaille Louisiana Creole French