bacallà
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Catalan
Etymology
From Dutch bakaliaw, of uncertain origin. Possibly from Latin baculum (“stick, staff”), referring to the way cod were split and dried on wooden sticks.
If the element *bak- is a metathesis of *kab- (compare French cabillaud and German Kabeljau from Dutch kabeljauw), then the original form of the word could have been *cabalao, maybe meaning "large-headed fish". First attested in 1640.[1]
Cognate to Italian baccalà, Portuguese bacalhau, Spanish bacalao.
Pronunciation
Noun
bacallà m (plural bacallans)
Derived terms
References
- ^ “bacallà”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN
Further reading
- “bacallà” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “bacallà”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “bacallà” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “bacallà” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.