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aval en · NOUN · etymology 1
Etymology
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Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd
Proto-Italic *ad
Latin ad
Old French a
French àabbr.?
French valoirabbr.?
French avalbor.
English aval
Borrowed from French aval.
Meanings
A financial guarantee by a third party to assume the burden of a debt, especially a bill of exchange in the event of default.
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Translations (12)
kk аваль (financial guarantee) · fi vekselitakaus (financial guarantee) · fi avaali (financial guarantee) · io avalo (financial guarantee) · es aval (financial guarantee) · es fianza (financial guarantee) · pl awal (financial guarantee) · es satisdación (financial guarantee) · eo avalo (financial guarantee) · kk кепілхат (financial guarantee) · bg авал (financial guarantee) · th อาวัล (financial guarantee)
aval en · ADJ · etymology 2
Etymology
From Latin avus (“grandfather”) + -al.
Meanings
(not-comparable, rare) Of, related to, or characteristic of a grandparent.
Sosrodihardjo found it hard to support his children, and the young Sukarno was sent to stay with his grandmother […] Believing that the boy had supernatural powers of healing, she put him to licking the afflicted parts of ailing villagers, and decided that he would be a clairvoyant. But alas for aval ambitions; Sukarno turned out to be a visionary of quite a different sort. 1973, Wilfred T. Neill, Twentieth-Century Indonesia, Columbia University Press, published 1973, →ISBN, page 299: