a toponym, indicating the presence of a watchtower: · a parish of Lourinhã, Lisbon district, Portugal; · a parish of Gavião, Portalegre district, Portugal;
çekim: çoğul atalaias
köken: From atalaia (“watchtower”), from Arabic الطَلِيعَة (aṭ-ṭalīʕa). Some Brazilians toponyms come from the Brazilian Portuguese sense of highest peak in a mountain chain. Cognate with Galician Atalaia.
aile: Atalaia do Campo, Atalaia do Norte, Póvoa da Atalaia
barrack, barracks (building or a group of buildings used by military personnel as housing) · watchtower, lookout tower (observation tower in which a lookout keeps watch over prisoners, or looks out for fires, etc.) · building used as temporary housing
çekim: çoğul kasarnie · tamlayan kasarni
köken: Etymology tree French casernebor. German Kasernebor. Polish kasarnia Borrowed from German Kaserne.
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *speḱ- Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *spéḱyeti Proto-Italic *spekjō Old Latin speciō Latin specula From Old Latin speciō + -ula (diminutive suffix) or -ula (instrument suffix); it is disputed whether these suffixes have the same ultimate origin. Compare speculum (“mirror”) (with similar formation, but different meaning and gender) and scopulus,…