different between galicia vs galego

Finnish

Noun

galicia

1. Galician (language)

Declension

Synonyms

• galego

Finnish

Noun

galego

1. Galician (language)

Declension

Synonyms

• galicia

Galician

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 *kall?- (“wood”) or from a descendant of Proto-Indo-European *kl?H-ní-s (“hill”), from Proto-Indo-European *kelH-, and a relational suffix *-aecus of Lusitanian or Hispano-Celtic origin.

The geographical name Gallaecia itself was derived from the ethnonym Gallaeci.

Pronunciation

• (standard) IPA^(key): [?a?le??]
• (dialectal) IPA^(key): [?a?le??], [?a?le??]

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 ?li[o] Dauidi», que quer dizer en lingoajen galego: señor faysnos saluos

     «Osana ?li[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

2. (uncountable) Galician language

Further reading

• Pobo Galego on the Galician Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^gl

References

• “galego” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “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.

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese galego, from Latin Gallaecus, from Gallaecia.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ga?le?go

Adjective

galego m (feminine singular 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. (Brazil, dialectal) blonde (a person with fair hair)
4. (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
5. (Brazil, derogatory) a Portuguese of poor education