galego
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Pronounced as (IPA)
[ɡaˈleɣʊ]
Etymology
In summary
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 [Term?] of Lusitanian or Hispano-Celtic origin. The geographical name Gallaecia was derived from the ethnonym Gallaeci.
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