valo

Borrowed from Latin vallis, English vale/valley, etc.

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• IPA^(key): [ˈvalo]
• Rhymes: -alo
• Hyphenation: va‧lo

valo (accusative singular valon, plural valoj, accusative plural valojn)

1. (geography) valley, vale

From Proto-Finnic *valo, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *waĺɜ. Cognates include dialectal Finnish valu (“light”), Estonian valu (“light”) (poetic), Erzya валдо (valdo, “light”), Komi-Permyak волявны (voľavny, “shine”) and Hungarian világ (“light”). Compare also Finnish valkea (“white, fire, bright”), Estonian valgus (“light”), from *walke.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋɑlo/, [ˈʋɑ̝lo̞]
• Rhymes: -ɑlo
• Hyphenation^(key): va‧lo

valo

1. light (visible electromagnetic radiation)
2. a light source, a lamp; a signal light

• “valo”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-04

From Latin vallum (“wall”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈbalo̝/

valo m (plural valos)

1. wall, rampart or fence which separates two pieces of land or a house perimeter

   Synonyms: cerca, cerrado, muro, valado

• valado
• valar
• Valos

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “valo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “valo”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “valo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “valo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “valo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

valo

1. first-person singular present indicative of valar

Borrowed from Esperanto valo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈva.lo/

valo (plural vali)

1. (geography) valley, vale

From Proto-Finnic *valo. Cognates include Finnish valo and Estonian valu.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈʋɑlo/, [ˈʋɑɫo̞]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈʋɑlo/, [ˈʋɑɫo̞]
• Rhymes: -ɑlo
• Hyphenation: va‧lo

valo

1. (Soikkola, Hevaha) light (visible radiation)

Declension of valo (type 4/koivu, no gradation, gemination)
	singular	plural
nominative	valo	valot
genitive	valon	valloin, valoloin
partitive	valloa	valoja, valoloja
illative	valloo	valloi, valoloihe
inessive	valos	valois, valolois
elative	valost	valoist, valoloist
allative	valolle	valoille, valoloille
adessive	valol	valoil, valoloil
ablative	valolt	valoilt, valoloilt
translative	valoks	valoiks, valoloiks
essive	valonna, valloon	valoinna, valoloinna, valloin, valoloin
exessive1)	valont	valoint, valoloint
1) obsolete *) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka? or -kä? to the genitive.

Related to Votic valo. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈʋɑlo/, [ˈʋɑɫo̞]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈʋɑlo/, [ˈʋɑɫo̞]
• Rhymes: -ɑlo
• Hyphenation: va‧lo

valo

1. dung, manure

Declension of valo (type 4/koivu, no gradation, gemination)
	singular	plural
nominative	valo	valot
genitive	valon	valloin, valoloin
partitive	valloa	valoja, valoloja
illative	valloo	valloi, valoloihe
inessive	valos	valois, valolois
elative	valost	valoist, valoloist
allative	valolle	valoille, valoloille
adessive	valol	valoil, valoloil
ablative	valolt	valoilt, valoloilt
translative	valoks	valoiks, valoloiks
essive	valonna, valloon	valoinna, valoloinna, valloin, valoloin
exessive1)	valont	valoint, valoloint
1) obsolete *) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka? or -kä? to the genitive.

• tae

• V. I. Junus (1936) Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka‎^[2], Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 82
• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 637

Regional variants of valo

North Karelian (Viena)	valo
South Karelian (Tver)	—

From Proto-Finnic *valo. Cognates include Finnish valo and Estonian valu.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋɑlo/
• Hyphenation: va‧lo

valo (genitive valon, partitive valuo)

1. (North Karelian) light

Viena Karelian declension of valo (type 1/tyttö, no gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	valo	valot
genitive	valon	valojen
partitive	valuo	valoja
illative	valoh	valoloih
inessive	valošša	valoloissa
elative	valošta	valoloista
adessive	valolla	valoloilla
ablative	valolta	valoloilta
translative	valokši	valoloiksi
essive	valona	valoloina
comitative	—	valoloineh
abessive	valotta	valoloitta

Possessive forms of valo
1st person	valoni
2nd person	valoš
3rd person	valoh
*) Possessive forms are very rare for adjectives and only used in substantivised clauses.

• P. M. Zaykov et al. (2015) “свет”, in Venäjä-Viena Šanakirja [Russian-Viena Karelian Dictionary], →ISBN

Malagasy cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : valo

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *walu, from Proto-Austronesian *walu.

valo

1. eight

From Latin vallum.

• Rhymes: -alu
• Hyphenation: va‧lo

valo m (plural valos)

1. entrenchment, ditch (a fortification constructed of trenches)

• (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA^(key): /ˈvɑlo/, [ˈvɑɫo]
• Rhymes: -ɑlo
• Hyphenation: va‧lo

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

valo

1. manure, dung

Declension of valo (type II/võrkko, no gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	valo	valod
genitive	valo	valojõ, valoi
partitive	valloa	valoitõ, valoi
illative	vallosõ, vallo	valoisõ
inessive	valoz	valoiz
elative	valossõ	valoissõ
allative	valolõ	valoilõ
adessive	valollõ	valoillõ
ablative	valoltõ	valoiltõ
translative	valossi	valoissi
*) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the terminative is formed by adding the suffix -ssaa to the short illative (sg) or the genitive. ***) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka to the genitive.

From Proto-Finnic *valo.

valo

1. light

Declension of valo (type II/võrkko, no gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	valo	valod
genitive	valo	valojõ, valoi
partitive	valloa	valoitõ, valoi
illative	vallosõ, vallo	valoisõ
inessive	valoz	valoiz
elative	valossõ	valoissõ
allative	valolõ	valoilõ
adessive	valollõ	valoillõ
ablative	valoltõ	valoiltõ
translative	valossi	valoissi
*) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the terminative is formed by adding the suffix -ssaa to the short illative (sg) or the genitive. ***) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka to the genitive.

• Hallap, V., Adler, E., Grünberg, S., Leppik, M. (2012) “valo”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn