different between freehold vs mailo

English

Noun

freehold (countable and uncountable, plural freeholds)

1. The tenure of property held in fee simple for life.
2. An estate held by a tenure of this type.

Translations

Verb

freehold (third-person singular simple present freeholds, present participle freeholding, simple past and past participle freeholded)

1. To dispense property in this way.

Anagrams

• foreheld

English

Etymology

From mile. These areas were originally divided up by square miles.

Noun

mailo (plural mailos)

1. In Uganda, a land tenure system similar to freehold, in which political nobles were accredited land at the start of the 20th century, and passed it on hereditarily, without possibility of the ownership being contested.

Anagrams

• Maoli, maoli

Galician

Etymology

From the contraction (through sandhi assimilation /s l/ > /ll/ > /l/) of conjunction mais (“and”) + masculine article o (from Vulgar Latin *illu).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?majlo/

Contraction

mailo m (feminine maila, masculine plural mailos, feminine plural mailas)

1. and the
   • 1823, Pedro Boado Sánchez, Diálogo entre dos Labradores gallegos afligidos:

     E may-lo Alcalde habíase d’alegrar, qu’el tamen está picado, qu’ainda n-hay ano é medio cabal que lle morreo á muller, é tamen pagou á farda como cada fillo de veciño.

     And the mayor would also be glad, because he's also piqued, because there's not a whole year and a half that his wife died and he also paid the burden as every mother's son

References

• “mailo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.