List Of Celtic Place Names In Galicia
The Celtic toponymy of Galicia (Spain), Galicia is the whole of the ancient or modern place, river, or mountain toponymy, names which were originated inside a Celtic language, and thus have Celtic etymology, and which are or were located inside the limits of modern Galicia (Spain), Galicia. Ancient Celtic toponyms In Galicia, approximately half of the non Latin toponyms transmitted from antiquity in the works of classical geographers and authors (Pomponius Mela, Pliny the Elder, Ptolemy...), or in epigraphic Roman inscriptions, have been found to be Celtic, being the other half mostly Indo-European but either arguably non Celtic, or lacking a solid Celtic etymology. Here is a non exhaustive list of toponyms which have been found to be, probably, Celtic. The most characteristic element is ,Koch (2006) p. 790 from Proto-Celtic *brigs, with its derivative , both meaning 'hill', and thence 'hillfort' and 'town'. The only type of settlement known in Galicia during the Iron Age a ...
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