Lemos

See also: lemos

Galician

The Cabe river at Monforte de Lemos

Etymology

Attested as Lemaos since the 9th century;[1] from Latin Lemavi, a local Celtic tribe, probably from Proto-Celtic *lēmo- (“elm”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁leym- (“elm”).[2][3]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈlɛmo̝s/

Proper noun

Lemos m

  1. A comarca in Lugo, Galicia, Spain.
  2. A toponymical surname​.

See also

References

  • "Lemos" in Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo / Xulio Sousa Fernández (dirs.): Cartografía dos apelidos de Galicia. Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega. <http://ilg.usc.es/cag/>
  1. ↑ "Lemaos" in Gallaeciae Monumenta Historica.
  2. ↑ Cf. Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 237.
  3. ↑ Falileyev, Alexander (1997). Dictionary of Continental Celtic Place-Names, Aberystwyth University, s.v. Lemavi.
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