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-alla

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Catalan

Etymology

From Latin -ālia, the neuter plural of -ālis. Cognate with French -aille, Italian -aglia.

Pronunciation

Suffix

-alla f (plural -alles)

  1. used to create collective nouns, often pejorative
    fadrí (youth, young man) + -allafadrinalla (young people)
    gent (people) + -allagentalla (riffraff, rabble)
  2. forms feminine nouns indicating the means or result of an action
    deixar (to leave) + -alladeixalla (relic, leftover)
    endevinar (to guess) + -allaendevinalla (riddle)

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