galego

galego

1. Galician (language)

• galicia

From Old Galician/Old 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 *-aecus of Lusitanian or Hispano-Celtic origin.[1]

The geographical name Gallaecia itself was derived from the ethnonym Gallaecus.

• (standard) IPA^(key): /ɡaˈleɣʊ/
• (dialectal) IPA^(key): /χaˈleχʊ/, /ħaˈleħʊ/

galego m (feminine singular galega, masculine plural galegos, feminine plural galegas)

1. Galician (pertaining to Galicia or the Galician language)
   • 1390, José Luis Pensado Tomé (ed.), Os Miragres de Santiago. Madrid: CSIC, page 19:

     «Osana fili[o] Dauidi», que quer dizer en lingoajen galego: señor faysnos saluos

     «Osana fili[o] Dauidi», which means, translated into Galician language: señor faysnos salvos [Lord, save us]

galego m (feminine galega, masculine plural galegos, feminine plural galegas)

1. a person from Galicia, or a person with Galician ancestry
2. (uncountable) Galician language

• “galego” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “galego” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “galego” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From Old Portuguese galego, from Latin Gallaecus, from Gallaecia.

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɡɐ.ˈle.ɣu/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ɡa.ˈle.ɡu/
• Hyphenation: ga‧le‧go

galego m (feminine singular galega, masculine plural galegos, feminine plural galegas, not comparable)

1. Galician (pertaining to Galicia, Spain or the Galician language)

galego m (plural galegos, feminine galega, feminine plural galegas)

1. Galician person
2. (uncountable) Galician language
3. (Brazil, slang) a European immigrant to Brazil, more specifically, a Portuguese 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