galego

See also: Galego

Finnish

Etymology

From Galician galego.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɑleɡo/, [ˈɡɑle̞ɡo̞]
• Rhymes: -ɑleɡo
• Syllabification^(key): ga‧le‧go

Noun

galego

1. Galician (language)

Declension

Inflection of galego (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation)
nominative		galego	—
genitive		galegon	—
partitive		galegoa	—
illative		galegoon	—
		singular	plural
nominative		galego	—
accusative	nom.	galego	—
	gen.	galegon
genitive		galegon	—
partitive		galegoa	—
inessive		galegossa	—
elative		galegosta	—
illative		galegoon	—
adessive		galegolla	—
ablative		galegolta	—
allative		galegolle	—
essive		galegona	—
translative		galegoksi	—
instructive		—	—
abessive		galegotta	—
comitative		—	—

Possessive forms of galego (type valo)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	galegoni	galegomme
2nd person	galegosi	galegonne
3rd person	galegonsa

Synonyms

• galicia

Galician

Galegas: Galician women wearing traditional costumes

Galegos: Galician dance group As beiras do Ulla, Lorient, 2012

Etymology

From Old Galician and 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 *-aekos of Lusitanian or Hispano-Celtic origin.

The geographical name Gallaecia was derived from the ethnonym Gallaeci.

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

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 in Galician language: señor faysnos salvos [Lord, save us]

Noun

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

1. a person from Galicia, or a person with Galician ancestry

   Nós somos galegos e os galegos sómosche así ― We are Galicians and we Galicians are like that

2. (uncountable) Galician language

References

• “galego” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “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.

Further reading

• Galician people on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese galego, from Latin Gallaecus, from Gallaecia. Cognate with Galician galego and Spanish gallego.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ɡaˈle.ɡu/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ɡaˈle.ɡu/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ɡaˈle.ɡo/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɡɐˈle.ɡu/ [ɡɐˈle.ɣu]

• Hyphenation: ga‧le‧go

Adjective

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

1. Galician (pertaining to Galicia or the Galician language)
2. (Brazil, dialectal) blonde

Noun

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

1. Galician person
2. (uncountable) Galician language
3. (Alentejo, derogatory) someone from the Norte Region of Portugal
4. (Brazil, dialectal) blonde (a person with fair hair)
5. (Brazil, dated) a European immigrant to Brazil, more specifically, a Portuguese or Spanish 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
6. (Brazil, derogatory) a Portuguese of poor education