Miño
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Etymology 1 edit
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese Minho, from Medieval Latin Mineo,[1] Classical Latin Minius, from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia, from Celtic, either from Proto-Celtic *mino- ("mild", compare Welsh mwyn, Irish mín),[2] or from Proto-Indo-European *mey- (“to wander”).[3] Compare Portuguese Minho.
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Miño m
Related terms edit
- Fomiñá (from Fonte Miniana; source of the river)
Etymology 2 edit
Attested as Miino in the 13th century, from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia.
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Miño m
- A town and municipality of A Coruña, Galicia, Spain
- a surname
References edit
- “Mineo” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- "Miño" in Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo / Xulio Sousa Fernández (dirs.): Cartografía dos apelidos de Galicia. Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
- ^ "Mineo" in the Gallaeciae Monumenta Historica.
- ^ Curchin, Leonard A. (2008). "The toponyms of the Roman Galicia: New Study", Cuadernos de Estudios Gallegos, LV (121), pages 109-136.
- ^ Falileyev, Alexander (1997). Dictionary of Continental Celtic Place-Names, Aberystwyth University, s.v. Minius.
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Miño m