Tejo

• Tajo

Borrowed from Portuguese Tejo (see for more).

Tejo

1. the Tagus river, especially the Portuguese portion of it

From Old Galician-Portuguese Tejo, from Latin Tagus.^[1] The change from /ɡ/ to /ʒ/ was an influence of Arabic /d͡ʒ/, while the change from /a/ to /e/ corresponded to a process of imala, absent in Spanish.^[2]

Cognate with Galician Texo, Mirandese Teijo, Asturian Texu, Spanish Tajo, Aragonese Tacho and Catalan Tajo.

• Hyphenation: Te‧jo

Tejo m

1. Tagus (a river in Portugal and Spain)
   • 1914, Alberto Caeiro, O Tejo é mais belo que o rio que corre pela minha aldeia:

     O Tejo é mais bello que o rio que corre pela minha aldeia

     The Tagus is more beautiful than the river that flows through my village