Barbanza

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Galician[edit]

Wild horses in the highlands of Barbanza
Canyon of the river Barbanza
Western Galician from the stratosphere: Barbanza is in the centre of the image

Etymology[edit]

From a substrate language, from a Celtic hydronym *Barvantia, "boiling", from Proto-Indo-European *bʰr̥u̯n̥ti̯ah₂, from *bʰerw- (“to boil”).[1] Compare Galician fervenza (“cascade, waterfall”), which could be a Romance calque of a pre-Latin noun.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): (standard) /baɾˈβanθa̝/, (locally) /baɾˈβansa̝/

Proper noun[edit]

Barbanza f

  1. A river in A Coruña, Galicia
    1. A comarca in A Coruña, Galicia
    2. Ponte Barbanza (a village in Posmarcos parish, A Pobra do Caramiñal, A Coruña, Galicia)

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References[edit]

  • “Barbanza” in Xavier Gómez Guinovart & Miguel Solla, Aquén. Vigo: Universidade de Vigo, 2007-2017.
  1. ^ Búa, Carlos (2018) Toponimia prelatina de Galicia, Santiago de Compostela: USC, →ISBN, page 192.
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