galego

== Finnish == === Etymology === From Galician galego. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈɡɑleɡo/, [ˈɡɑ̝le̞ɡo̞] Rhymes: -ɑleɡo Syllabification(key): ga‧le‧go Hyphenation(key): ga‧le‧go === Noun === galego Galician (language) ==== Declension ==== ==== Synonyms ==== galicia == Galician == === 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. === Pronunciation === Hyphenation: ga‧le‧go === Adjective === galego (feminine galega, masculine plural galegos, feminine plural galegas) Galician (pertaining to Galicia or the Galician language) ==== 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 === Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “galego”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (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 === Galician people on Wikipedia.Wikipedia == Portuguese == === Etymology === From Old Galician-Portuguese galego, from Latin Gallaecus, from Gallaecia. Cognate with Galician galego and Spanish gallego. === Pronunciation === Hyphenation: ga‧le‧go === Adjective === galego (feminine galega, masculine plural galegos, feminine plural galegas, not comparable) Galician (pertaining to Galicia or the Galician language) (Brazil, dialectal) blond === Noun === galego m (plural galegos, feminine galega, feminine plural galegas) Galician person (uncountable) Galician language (Alentejo, Algarve, colloquial) someone from Northern Portugal (Northeast Brazil) blond (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 === References === === Further reading === “galego”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026