galego

From Galician galego.

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

galego

1. Galician (language)

• galicia

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.[1]

The geographical name Gallaecia was derived from the ethnonym Gallaeci.

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

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]

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

• “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.

• Galician people on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

From Old Portuguese galego, from Latin Gallaecus,[1][2] from Gallaecia. Cognate with Galician galego and Spanish gallego.

• Hyphenation: ga‧le‧go

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

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

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