Nebra
Galician
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Etymology
[edit]Attested as Nevare circa 830,[1] and later as valle de Nevar in 1220.[2] From a substrate language; if cognate with French Nièvre, then from a pre-Celtic river-name *nevara.[3]
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Nebra
- A parish of Porto do Son, A Coruña, Galicia
- a surname
References
[edit]- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “Neuar”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- “Nebra” in Xavier Gómez Guinovart & Miguel Solla, Aquén. Vigo: Universidade de Vigo, 2007-2017.
- “Nebra” in Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo / Xulio Sousa Fernández (dirs.): Cartografía dos apelidos de Galicia. Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
- ^ "Nevare" in Biblioteca Dixital da Galicia Medieval .
- ^ "Neuar" in Gallaecieae Monumenta Historica.
- ^ Nègre, Ernest (1990) Toponymie générale de la France. Genève: Droz, vol. I, page 40.