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Etymology edit

From Galician Galiza.

Proper noun edit

Galiza

  1. Alternative form of Galicia

Asturian edit

Proper noun edit

Galiza f

  1. Alternative form of Galicia

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A satellite view of Galiza and nearby lands

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Etymology edit

From Old Galician-Portuguese, i.e. Medieval Galician, Galiza; from Medieval Latin Gallicia, from Classical Latin Gallaecia, older Callaecia; from Callaecī, a local tribe whose name was applied by the Romans to all other tribes dwelling north of the Douro, in western Hispania. From Proto-Celtic *kallī- (wood) or from a descendant of Proto-Indo-European *kl̥H-ní-s (hill), from Proto-Indo-European *kelH-; + a relational suffix *-aecus, of Lusitanian origin.[1]

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ɡaˈliθɐ/, /ɡaˈlisɐ/
  • (file)

Proper noun edit

Galiza f

  1. Galicia, Spain
    • 1390, José Luis Pensado Tomé, editor, Os Miragres de Santiago. Versión gallega del Códice latino del siglo XII atribuido al papa Calisto I, Madrid: C.S.I.C, page 70:
      vio hũu camino d'estrelas que se começaua sobre lo mar de Frisa et ya por ontre Alamana et Ytalia et por ontre França et Aquita[n]ia et ya dereytamente por meogo da Gascona et por Nauara et por Espana, et ya ferir en Galiza
      He saw a way in the stars, starting over the sea of Friesland and then going in between Germany and Italy, and in between France and Aquitaine, and then right through the middle of Gascony and Navarre and Spain, and it ended in Galicia
  2. the ancient Kingdom of Galicia
    • 1295, Ramón Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F., page 174:
      os condes de Galiza, poys que nõ poderõ sofrer o mal que el rey dõ Rramiro lles fazia, alçarõ rey en Sanctiago a dõ Bermudo, fillo del rey dõ Ordono
      The counts of Galicia, as they could not endure the pain that king Ramiro was inflicting on them, crowned Bermudo —the son of king Ordoño— as king in Santiago

References edit

  • Galiza” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • Galiza” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • Galiza” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  1. ^ Moralejo, Juan J. (2008). Callaica nomina: estudios de onomástica gallega. A Coruña: Fundación Pedro Barrié de la Maza, pages 113–148. →ISBN.

Old Galician-Portuguese edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Medieval Latin Gallicia, from Latin Gallaecia, from Gallaecī (a tribe in the region).

Pronunciation edit

Proper noun edit

Galiza

  1. (Kingdom of) Galicia.

Descendants edit

  • Galician: Galiza
  • Portuguese: Galiza

Old Norse edit

 
Galiza í Spáni.

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Medieval Latin Gallicia, from Classical Latin Gallaecia, from Gallaecī (a Celtic tribe in the region).

Noun edit

Galiza f (genitive Galizu)

  1. Galicia (an autonomous community of Spain)

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Galiza

Etymology edit

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese Galiza, from Medieval Latin Gallicia, from Latin Gallaecia, from Gallaecī (a tribe in the region). Doublet of Galícia and Galécia.

Pronunciation edit

 

  • Hyphenation: Ga‧li‧za

Proper noun edit

Galiza f

  1. Galicia (an autonomous community of Spain)
    Synonym: (Brazil) Galícia

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