Noun: galego
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | galego |
| Singular f | galega |
| Plural m | galegos |
| Plural f | galegas |
uncountable
Sample Sentences
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Nós somos galegos e os galegos sómosche así (We are Galicians and we Galicians are like that)
Nouns inflected like galego
preguiceiro,
metafísico,
serbio,
entomólogo,
estreleiro,
cunqueiro,
becerro,
palestino,
granxeiro,
georgiano,
kiribatiano,
escandinavo,
chadiano,
tamborileiro,
antónimo,
búlgaro,
alcohólico,
milenario,
mauritano,
anglofóbico, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Latin gallaecus
3. Old Galician-Portuguese galego
4. Galician galego
5. 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.
6. The geographical name Gallaecia was derived from the ethnonym Gallaeci. See: Old Portuguese Nouns '
galego', Old Portuguese Nouns '
galego', Latin Nouns '
gallaecus'.
Verbs referencing "galego"
Finnish Nouns
galego, Portuguese Nouns
galego, Spanish Nouns
gallego, Asturian Nouns
gallegu.
Translations