Ansamonde

Galician

Etymology

Ultimately from a lost common noun (vila, agro, castro, busto vel sim) and the name of a 5th-10th centuries landowner, Late Latin Ansimundi, genitive of Ansimundus;[1] from a Suevic and/or Gothic personal name, from Proto-Germanic *Ansumundaz, from *ansuz (“deity”) + *mundaz (“protection”).[2]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ansaˈmonde̝/

Proper noun

Ansamonde m

  1. A village in O Lago, Maside, Ourense, Galicia.

See also

References
  • “Ansamonde” in Xavier Gómez Guinovart & Miguel Solla, Aquén. Vigo: Universidade de Vigo, 2007-2017.
  1. "Ansemondus" in Gallaeciae Monumenta Historica.
  2. Cf. Piel, Joseph M.; Kremer, Dieter (1976) Hispano-gotisches Namenbuch, Heidelberg: Carl Winter - Universitätsverlag, →ISBN, p. 76.
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