Anseán

Galician

Alternative forms

Etymology

Ultimately from a lost common noun (vila, agro, castro, busto vel sim) and the name of a 5th-10th centuries landowner, Late Latin Ansilani, improper or late genitive of Ansila; from a Suevic and/or Gothic personal name, from Proto-Germanic *Ansilô, from *ansuz (“deity”) and the diminutive personal suffix *-ilan-.[1][2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /anseˈaŋ/

Proper noun

Anseán m

  1. a parish of O Corgo, Lugo, Galicia
  2. a parish of Lalín, Pontevedra, Galicia
  3. a village in Buxantes parish, Dumbría, A Coruña, Galicia
  4. a surname transferred from the place name

See also

References

  • Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “Ansian”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
  • “Anseán” in Xavier Gómez Guinovart & Miguel Solla, Aquén. Vigo: Universidade de Vigo, 2007-2017.
  • “Anseán” in Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo / Xulio Sousa Fernández (dirs.): Cartografía dos apelidos de Galicia. Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
  1. ^ Ringe, Don (2006) From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, retrieved 19 June 2018, page 293
  2. ^ Piel, Joseph M., Kremer, Dieter (1976) Hispano-gotisches Namenbuch, Heidelberg: Carl Winter - Universitätsverlag, →ISBN, p. 77.
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