castejano
Galician
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Spanish castellano, substituting the phoneme /ʎ/ for the Spanish /x/, a perceived equivalence between both languages.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]castejano m (plural castejanos)
- (humorous, mildly derogatory) Castilian Spanish language
References
[edit]- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “castejano”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “castejano”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega