galga

Noun

 * 1) brake

Etymology 1
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Noun

 * 1)  arch of the foot or of a shoe
 * 2)  each one of the two semicircular spans of a traditional wheel
 * 3) flat stone used as a brick

Etymology 2
. Perhaps form, from. Alternatively or concurrently from, or any other descendant from , or from a cognate of 🇨🇬 (compare 🇨🇬), perhaps of origin.

Cognate with 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) rolling stone; any individual rock that rolls or is rolled down a hill, historically used as a weapon
 * 2)  cold gale
 * 3) stake which in traditional carts was used as a brake or restrain when descending
 * 4)  when the ball misses all the pins

Alternative forms

 * (1898: Richard Phillips, ‘Vocabulary of Australian Aborigines in the neighbourhood of Cooktown, North Queensland’. The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, volume 27)

Etymology
From Proto-Paman *kalka, from Proto-Pama-Nyungan *kalka.

Noun

 * 1) spear

Synonyms

 * (avoidance language)

Noun

 * 1) greyhound