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Finnish
Etymology
From Galician galego .
Pronunciation
Noun
galego
Galician ( language )
Declension
Synonyms
Galician
Galegas : Galician women wearing traditional costumes
Galegos : Galician dance group As beiras do Ulla, Lorient, 2012
Etymology
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.[ 1]
The geographical name Gallaecia was derived from the ethnonym Gallaeci .
Pronunciation
Adjective
galego (feminine galega , masculine plural galegos , feminine plural galegas )
Galician ( pertaining to Galicia or the Galician language )
1390 , José Luis Pensado Tomé, editor, Os Miragres de Santiago , Madrid: CSIC, page 19 :«Osana fili[o] Dauidi», que quer dizer en lingoajen galego : señor faysnos saluos «Osana fili Dauidi», which means in Galician language: señor faysnos salvos
Derived terms
Noun
galego m (plural galegos , feminine galega , feminine plural galegas )
a person from Galicia , or a person with Galician ancestry
Nós somos galegos e os galegos sómosche así ― We are Galicians and we Galicians are like that
Noun
galego m (uncountable )
the Galician language
Derived terms
References
Ernesto Xosé González Seoane , María Álvarez de la Granja , Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006 –2022 ) “galego ”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández , editor (2006 –2013 ), “galego ”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language ] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Rosario Álvarez Blanco , editor (2014 –2024 ), “galego ”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega , →ISSN
Further reading
Portuguese
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese galego , from Latin Gallaecus ,[ 1] [ 2] from Gallaecia . Cognate with Galician galego and Spanish gallego .
Pronunciation
Adjective
galego (feminine galega , masculine plural galegos , feminine plural galegas , not comparable )
Galician ( pertaining to Galicia or the Galician language )
( Brazil , dialectal ) blonde
Noun
galego m (plural galegos , feminine galega , feminine plural galegas )
Galician person
( uncountable ) Galician language
( Alentejo , derogatory ) someone from the Norte Region of Portugal
( Brazil , dialectal ) blonde ( a person with fair hair )
( Brazil , dated ) a European immigrant to Brazil, more specifically, a Portuguese or Spanish immigrant
Jeffrey Lesser, Immigration, Ethnicity, and National Identity in Brazil, 1808 to the Present p. 108 ,
p. 89 referring to Dicionario de Gria , Sao Paulo: Editora Preludio, 1974, p. 62
( Brazil , derogatory ) a Portuguese of poor education
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