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Galician

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Etymology

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From *acauniu, from a local Celtic substrate language, from Proto-Celtic *akaunon (stone),[1] from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éḱmō.[2] Doublet of con and coio.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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gouño m (plural gouños)

  1. pebble
    Synonyms: coio, croio
  2. boulder
    Synonym: con
  3. outcrop
    Synonym: laxe
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References

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  1. ^ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “con II”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
  2. ^ Cf. Xavier Delamarre (2003) Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise: Une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental, →ISBN, pages 30-31.