galego

Meaning

Adj

Galician (pertaining to Galicia or the Galician language)

Noun

a person from Galicia, or a person with Galician ancestry

Noun

the Galician language

Hyphenated as

ga‧le‧go

Pronounced as (IPA)

[ɡaˈleɣʊ]

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.
The geographical name Gallaecia was derived from the ethnonym Gallaeci.

Sentences

Manifestación a prol do galego .

Demonstration in favour of the Gypsy.

¡ Que pouco podemos agardar do Goberno galego se se fai esta afirmación!

How little we can expect from the Welsh Government if this assertion is made!

O turismo en galego é posíbel , por suposto .

Tourism in Mexico is possible, of course.

En galego coñécese co nome de " Virxe do O ".

In English, it is known as the Virgin of the O.

Empezábase a publicar máis libro galego .

I started to publish more Galician books.

Minutos antes do inicio do acto a autoridade gobernativa prohibiu falar en galego .

Minutes before the start of the event the governmental authority forbade speaking in Welsh.

Esa cantidade é excesiva para o que pode absorver o mercado galego .

That amount is excessive for what can be absorbed by the Welsh market.

Tratábase con elas de poñer fin ao tradicional déficit galego en comunicacións terrestres .

It was about putting an end to the traditional Galician deficit in land-based communications.