quala

Borrowed from French quel, Italian quale, Spanish cual, ultimately from Latin quālis, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷís.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkwa.la/

quala

1. (interrogative pronoun) what sort of, what kind of, what a, like

   Quala librin vu prizas lektar?

   What kind of books do you like to read?

• quale (“how”)
• qualeso (“quality”)

• qualesala (“qualitative”)

• qua (“who (person)”)
  • quo (“what (thing)”)
  • qui (“who (plural)”)
  • pro quo (“why”)
• ube (“where”)
• kande (“when”)
• quanta (“how much”)
  • quanto (“quantity”)

quāla

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of quālum

From Proto-West Germanic *kwālu, from Proto-Germanic *kwēlō.

quāla f

1. torment, pain

• Middle Dutch: quâle
  • Dutch: kwaal
    • Afrikaans: kwaal

• “kwāla”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

From Proto-West Germanic *kwālu

quāla f

1. torment

• German: Qual