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Galician
Etymology
From a substrate language, probably from Proto-Celtic *berwyā (compare Welsh berw (“to boil”)), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerwyeh₂ (“cascade”), from *bʰerw- (“to boil”).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbeɾβja̝/, /ˈbɛɾβja̝/
Noun
berbia f (plural berbias)
- (archaic) current, stream
- (archaic) cascade
References
- ^ Búa, Carlos (2018) Toponimia prelatina de Galicia, Santiago de Compostela: USC, →ISBN, page 180.