cachelo

cachelo

Galician

Polbo con cachelos ("octopus with potatoes")

Etymology

From cacho (“piece, fragment”) +‎ -elo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaˈt͡ʃɛlo̝/

Noun

cachelo m (plural cachelos)

1. a germinated fragment of potato
2. (in the plural, cooking) cooked potatoes (boiled in broth or water with salt)
   • 1889, Xulio Alonso Sánchez, O Chufón:

     Ó redor da lareira, na cuciña da casa máis chea do logar de Outeiro, xunta estaba a familia. O patrón sentado no escano cos pés fóra e por riba das zocas, quentábase, ó mesmo tempo que, cun forquito bandexaba os toxos, que dempois metía pra debaixo do caldeiro; a muller, sentada no chan, partía os cachelos pró caldo, ia herdeira, filla úneca daquel xuntoiro e xoia daquela casa, fiaba na roca os cerros, prá tea do ano.

     The family was reunited around the hearth, in the kitchen of the fullest house of the hamlet of Outeiro. The head of the household was sitting on the bench, his feet out and on the clogs, warming while he was shaking the furzes with a poke before placing them under the cauldron; the wife, sitting on the ground, was snapping the potatoes for the broth, and the heir, only child of that union and that home's jewel, was spinning the flax, for the year's cloth.

References

• “cachelo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “cachelo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “cachelo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaˈt͡ʃelo/ [kaˈt͡ʃe.lo]
• Rhymes: -elo
• Syllabification: ca‧che‧lo

Noun

cachelo m (plural cachelos)

1. (Spain, especially Galicia) boiled potato

Further reading

• “cachelo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014