Lemos

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Galician

The Cabe river at Monforte de Lemos
Coat of arms of the Count of Lemos

Etymology

Attested as Lemaos since the 9th century;[1] from Latin Lemavos, a local Celtic tribe; probably from Proto-Celtic *limos (“elm”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁élem (“elm”).[2][3]

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Lemos m

  1. A comarca in Lugo, Galicia, Spain
  2. a toponymical surname

See also

References

  • "Lemos" in Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo / Xulio Sousa Fernández (dirs.): Cartografía dos apelidos de Galicia. Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega. <http://ilg.usc.es/cag/>
  1. ^ "Lemaos" in Gallaeciae Monumenta Historica.
  2. ^ Cf. Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 237.
  3. ^ Falileyev, Alexander (1997). Dictionary of Continental Celtic Place-Names, Aberystwyth University, s.v. Lemavi.

Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: Le‧mos

Proper noun

Lemos m or f by sense

  1. a surname
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