bacallà

== Catalan == === Etymology === From Dutch bakkeljauw, 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. Cognate to Italian baccalà, Portuguese bacalhau, Spanish bacalao. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): (Central, Balearic) [bə.kəˈʎa] IPA(key): (Valencia) [ba.kaˈʎa] Rhymes: -a === Noun === bacallà m (plural bacallans) cod Synonym: abadejo ==== Derived terms ==== === References === 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 [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007 “bacallà”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026 “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.