Lemos
See also: lemos
Galician edit
Etymology edit
Attested as Lemaos since the 9th century;[1] from Latin Lemavos, a local Celtic tribe; probably from Proto-Celtic *limos (“elm”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁élem (“elm”).[2][3]
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Lemos m
See also edit
- Terra de Lemos on the Galician Wikipedia.Wikipedia gl
References edit
- "Lemos" in Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo / Xulio Sousa Fernández (dirs.): Cartografía dos apelidos de Galicia. Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega. <http://ilg.usc.es/cag/>
- ^ "Lemaos" in Gallaeciae Monumenta Historica.
- ^ Cf. Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 237.
- ^ Falileyev, Alexander (1997). Dictionary of Continental Celtic Place-Names, Aberystwyth University, s.v. Lemavi.
Portuguese edit
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: Le‧mos
Proper noun edit
Lemos m or f by sense
- a surname