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Barbanza.

a river in A Coruña, Galicia

8 characters3 syllables approx.Galego language

Meaning & usage

name/baɾˈβanθa̝/standard/baɾˈβansa̝/
  1. a river in A Coruña, Galicia a comarca in A Coruña, Galicia

    feminine
  2. a river in A Coruña, Galicia Ponte Barbanza (a village in Posmarcos parish, A Pobra do Caramiñal, A Coruña, Galicia)

    feminine
Where this word comes from

From a substrate language, from a Celtic hydronym *Barvantia, "boiling", from Proto-Indo-European *bʰr̥u̯n̥ti̯ah₂, from *bʰerw- (“to boil”). Compare Galician fervenza (“cascade, waterfall”), which could be a Romance calque of a pre-Latin noun.

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