écale
See also: écalé and êcale
French
Etymology
From Old French escale, from Frankish *skala or another Old High German source skala /scāla. Cf. Proto-Germanic *skaljō, Frankish *skallija. Ultimately of the same source as the doublet écaille (“scale”).
Pronunciation
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Noun
écale f (plural écales)
- husk
- pod
- shell (of nut)
Related terms
- escalope
Verb
écale
- inflection of écaler:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
Further reading
- “écale”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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