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French
Verb
légua
- third-person singular past historic of léguer
Anagrams
Portuguese
Etymology
From Late Latin leuga (“Gaulish league, the distance of one hour's walking”), from Gaulish,[1] from Proto-Celtic *lougā.[2] Cognate with Spanish and Galician legua and Catalan llegua.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɛɡwɐ
- Hyphenation: lé‧gua
Noun
légua f (plural léguas)
- (historical) legua, Portuguese league, a traditional unit of distance, variously reckoned as 4444.4, 5555.6, or 6172.8 m
- (historical) metric league, a unit of distance equal to exactly 5 km used immediately after Portuguese metricization
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References
- ^ Blažek, Václav (2008) “Gaulish Language”, in Studia minora Facultatis philosophicae Universitatis Brunensis, number 13, Sborníku prací filozofické fakulty brněnské univerzity, page 49
- ^ Koch, John (2004) English–Proto-Celtic Word-list with attested comparanda, University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies