galician
/ɡəˈlɪs.i.ən/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.44 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of or pertaining to the Galician language.
noun
The language of Galicia; a Romance language spoken in the northwestern corner of the Iberian peninsula.
Uncountable
adj
Of, from or relating to Galicia, a geographic region in Poland and Ukraine.
noun
A native or inhabitant of Galicia, a geographic region in Poland and Ukraine.
Example Sentences
- "The subsequent oil slicks that reached the coast resulted in severe ecological and economic consequences for the Galician coast and the Bay of Biscay."
- ""I have been asked over by Dr. Maupuis of the Institut Métapsychique to see some of the experiments which he is conducting upon a Galician medium.""
- "The "entierro de la sardina," the burial of the sardine, is a Galician custom popular in many villages on Ash Wednesday."
- "This vowel is similar to the Catalan sound in the words Jordi or sola and to the Galician sound in the words ola or po."
- "The little Galician was sitting nibbling a biscuit with a glass of red wine before him."
- "In Argentina, too, there is a community of Welsh-speakers. Similarly some Galicians, Catalans and Basques have retained their mother tongues in ways that had they remained, respectively in the United Kingdom or Spain, might have been more difficult to do."
Etymology
Etymology tree English Galicia Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Proto-Italic *-ānos Latin -ānus Old French -ainder. Middle English -an English -an English Galician From Galicia (“region in northwest Spain”) + -an.
Usage
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Phrases
Old Galician-Portuguese
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