Adjective: galego
Hyphenation:
| Singular m. | galego |
| Singular f. | galega |
| Plural m. | galegos |
| Plural f. | galegas |
Sample Sentences
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«Osana fili[o] Dauidi», que quer dizer en lingoajen galego: señor faysnos saluos («Osana fili[o] Dauidi», which means in Galician language: señor faysnos salvos [Lord, save us]) [1390, José Luis Pensado Tomé, editor, Os Miragres de Santiago, Madrid: CSIC, page 19:]
Adjectives inflected like galego
preguiceiro,
metafórico,
perdulário,
metafísico,
anxélico,
serbio,
sañudo,
severo,
seguro,
sedoso,
sabido,
atmosférico,
estremeiro,
romántico,
metódico,
satisfeito,
sonoro,
sollío,
sobexo,
sisudo, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Latin gallaecus
3. Old Galician-Portuguese galego
4. Galician galego
5. 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.
6. The geographical name Gallaecia was derived from the ethnonym Gallaeci. See: Latin Adjectives '
gallaecus'.
Verbs referencing "galego"
Portuguese Adjectives
galego, Spanish Adjectives
gallego, Asturian Adjectives
gallegu.
Translations