Ons

See also: ons, öns, and -ons

Galician

Etymology

The island's name is from Medieval Latin Aunes; attested by Pliny as Classical Latin Aunios, from Paleo-Hispanic, probably from Proto-Celtic *au- (“away, off”),[1] perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó.[2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɔŋs/

Proper noun

Ons f

  1. an island and parish of Bueu, Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain
  2. a parish of Brión, A Coruña, Galicia
  3. a toponymical surname

See also

References

  • "Ons" in Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo / Xulio Sousa Fernández (dirs.): Cartografía dos apelidos de Galicia. Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega. <http://ilg.usc.es/cag/>
  • "Ons" in Aquén, Xavier Gómez Guinovart & Miguel Solla, Universidade de Vigo, 2007-2017.
  1. ^ Falileyev, Alexander (1997). Dictionary of Continental Celtic Place-Names, Aberystwyth University, s.v. Aunios.
  2. ^ Xavier Delamarre (2003) Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise: Une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental, →ISBN, page 60
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