bacallà

Etymology
From, of origin. Possibly from, referring to the way cod were split and dried on wooden sticks.

If the element *bak- is a metathesis of *kab- (compare 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬 from 🇨🇬), then the original form of the word could have been *cabalao, maybe meaning "large-headed fish". .

Cognate to 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) cod