galego.
Galician (pertaining to Galicia or the Galician language)
Meaning & usage
Galician (pertaining to Galicia or the Galician language)
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Latin gallaecus Old Galician-Portuguese galego Galician galego Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese galego, from Latin gallaecus (“a Galician”), from older callaecus (“a person of a local tribe from NW Iberia”), from a local substrate language; either from Proto-Celtic *kallī- (“wood”) or from a descendant of Proto-Indo-European *kl̥H-ní-s (“hill”), from Proto-Indo-European *kelH-, and a relational suffix *-aekos of Lusitanian or Hispano-Celtic origin. The geographical name Gallaecia was derived from the ethnonym Gallaeci.
the Galician language
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Latin gallaecus Old Galician-Portuguese galego Galician galego Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese galego, from Latin gallaecus (“a Galician”), from older callaecus (“a person of a local tribe from NW Iberia”), from a local substrate language; either from Proto-Celtic *kallī- (“wood”) or from a descendant of Proto-Indo-European *kl̥H-ní-s (“hill”), from Proto-Indo-European *kelH-, and a relational suffix *-aekos of Lusitanian or Hispano-Celtic origin. The geographical name Gallaecia was derived from the ethnonym Gallaeci.
a person from Galicia, or a person with Galician ancestry
Nós somos galegos e os galegos sómosche así
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Latin gallaecus Old Galician-Portuguese galego Galician galego Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese galego, from Latin gallaecus (“a Galician”), from older callaecus (“a person of a local tribe from NW Iberia”), from a local substrate language; either from Proto-Celtic *kallī- (“wood”) or from a descendant of Proto-Indo-European *kl̥H-ní-s (“hill”), from Proto-Indo-European *kelH-, and a relational suffix *-aekos of Lusitanian or Hispano-Celtic origin. The geographical name Gallaecia was derived from the ethnonym Gallaeci.
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