Anseán

Anseán

Galician

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, Dumbría, A Coruña, Galicia.
4. A toponymical surname​.

See also

• Anseán on the Galician Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^gl

References

• “Ansian” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “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, page 293
2. Piel, Joseph M.; Kremer, Dieter (1976) Hispano-gotisches Namenbuch, Heidelberg: Carl Winter - Universitätsverlag, →ISBN, p. 77.