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Samos.

a town and municipality of Lugo, Galicia, Spain

5 characters2 syllables approx.Galego language

Meaning & usage

name/ˈsamo̝s/
  1. a town and municipality of Lugo, Galicia, Spain

  2. a parish of Samos, Lugo, Galicia

Where this word comes from

From an earlier Samãos. Attested as Samanos in local early Medieval Latin documents, it being the name of a local monastery founded under Suevic or Gothic rule in the 6th or 7th century; either from Proto-Germanic *samanai, cf. Gothic 𐍃𐌰𐌼𐌰𐌽𐌰 (samana, “together”) and Old High German gisemini (“congregation”), or from a Paleo-Hispanic, from a Celtic cognate of this Germanic forms.

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