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Germanic names were the most common personal names in Portugal-Galicia (Gallaecia) during the early and high Middle Ages, surpassing Christian and Roman names in number and popularity. [195] The names, primarily of East Germanic origin, were used by the Suebi, Goths, Vandals and Burgundians.
a popular Brazilian dance of African origin incorporating martial arts movements [20] Carambola Star fruit – Portuguese, perhaps from Marathi कराम्बल karambal [21] Caramel via French and Spanish, from Portuguese caramelo, 'caramel', from Late Latin calamellus. [22] Typical Portuguese rhotacism of the letter "L". Caravel from ...
This is a list of Portuguese words that come from Germanic languages.Many of these words entered the language during the late antiquity, either as words introduced into Vulgar Latin elsewhere, or as words brought along by the Suebi who settled in Gallaecia [1] (Northern Portugal and Galicia) in the 5th century, and also by the Visigoths [2] who annexed the Suebic Kingdom in 585.
Portuguese (endonym: português or língua portuguesa) is a Western Romance language of the Indo-European language family originating from the Iberian Peninsula of Europe.It is the official language of Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Portugal and São Tomé and Príncipe, [6] and has co-official language status in East Timor, Equatorial Guinea and Macau.
Portuguese is spoken as a first language in Portugal (the language's namesake) by nearly all of the nation's 10.6 million people. [22] The ancestor of modern Portuguese, Galician–Portuguese , [ clarification needed ] began developing in the north-west of the Iberian Peninsula , in an area encompassing present-day northern Portugal and Galicia ...
Portugal, [e] officially the Portuguese Republic, [f] is a country in the Iberian Peninsula in Southwestern Europe.Featuring the westernmost point in continental Europe, Portugal borders Spain to its north and east, with which it shares the longest uninterrupted border in the European Union; to the south and the west is the North Atlantic Ocean; and to the west and southwest lie the ...
The name of Portugal itself reveals much of the country's early history, stemming from the Roman name Portus Cale, a Latin name meaning "Port of Cale" (Cale likely is a word of Celtic origin - Cailleach-Bheur her other name; the Mother goddess of the Celtic people as in Calais, Caledonia, Beira.
The history of Portugal can be traced from circa 400,000 years ago, when the region of present-day Portugal was inhabited by Homo heidelbergensis.. The Roman conquest of the Iberian Peninsula, which lasted almost two centuries, led to the establishment of the provinces of Lusitania in the south and Gallaecia in the north of what is now Portugal.