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Galician vs Lillian - What's the difference?

galician | lillian |

As proper nouns the difference between galician and lillian

is that galician is the language of galicia; a romance language spoken in the northwestern corner of the iberian peninsula while lillian is (this is the standard american spelling).

As an adjective galician

is of or pertaining to the region of galicia in iberia or galician can be of or pertaining to the historical region of galicia in central europe.

As a noun galician

is a native or inhabitant of galicia, a region of the northwestern iberian peninsula or galician can be an inhabitant of galicia, a region in poland and ukraine.

galician

Etymology 1

From .

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of or pertaining to the region of Galicia in Iberia.
  • * 2009 , D. R. Green, Coastal and Marine Geospatial Technologies , page 107
  • The subsequent oil slicks that reached the coast resulted in severe ecological and economic consequences for the Galician coast and the Bay of Biscay.
  • Of or pertaining to the people of Galicia (in Iberia) or their culture.
  • * 1999 [1882], Emilia Pardo Bazán, The Tribune of the People , (translated by Walter Borenstein), page 253
  • The "entierro de la sardina," the burial of the sardine, is a Galician custom popular in many villages on Ash Wednesday.
  • Of or pertaining to the language.
  • * 2009 , Eva Estebas Vilaplana, Teach yourself English pronunciation , page 18
  • This vowel is similar to the Catalan sound in the words Jordi'' or ''sola'' and to the Galician sound in the words ''ola'' or ''po .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A native or inhabitant of Galicia, a region of the northwestern Iberian peninsula.
  • * 2000 , Clare Mar-Molinero, The Politics of Language in the Spanish-speaking World , page 52
  • In Argentina, too, there is a community of Welsh-speakers. Similarly some Galicians , Catalans and Basques have retained their mother tongues in ways that had they remained, respectively in the United Kingdom or Spain, might have been more difficult to do.
  • * 2000', ''Ethnologia Europaea'' ' 30 (2): 52
  • The Portuguese claim that a Galician' would never be generous, as a Portuguese would. On their side, the '''Galicians''' tell the story of the Portuguese who invites some ' Galicians to dinner and then gives his guests very little to eat.
    Synonyms
    * (inhabitant of Galicia) Galizan, Gallegan

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • The language of Galicia; a Romance language spoken in the northwestern corner of the Iberian peninsula.
  • * 1998 , Catherine Davies, Spanish Women's Writing, 1849-1996 , page 63
  • Rosalia de Castro became a crucial element in this early nationalist cultural campaign: she spoke Galician as her first language and she was literate, educated, and sympathetic to the group's progressive aims.
    Synonyms
    * (language) Galizan, Gallegan
    See also
    * (gl)

    Etymology 2

    From .

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of or pertaining to the historical region of Galicia in Central Europe.
  • * 2006 , Shulamit ?ol?ov, Germans, Jews, and Antisemites: Trials in Emancipation , page 272
  • Victor Adler was born in a small Moravian town on the Galician border.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An inhabitant of Galicia, a region in Poland and Ukraine.
  • * 2004 , Serhy Yekelchyk, Stalin's Empire of Memory: Russian-Ukrainian Relations in the Soviet Historical Imagination , page 50
  • According to Manuilsky, some Galicians idealized the Austro-Hungarian past for the empire's promotion of national autonomy, yet the Habsburgs had discouraged Eastern Galicia's economic development, whereas the Soviet power would 'turn Lviv into one of the biggest industrial centres of Soviet Ukraine.'

    lillian

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (U.K.) Lilian

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • . (This is the standard American spelling.)
  • * 1836 Adeline Sergeant: Lillian Lee :
  • Your mother's name was Lillian , Minnie Lee,
    Her other name I never heard, until
    I stood within the church and saw her wed
    So she is ever Lillian Lee to me.
  • * 1907 Lewis Clinton Strang: Famous Prima Donnas . L.C.Page&Co, 1907. page 33:
  • Lillian' Russell was christened Helen Louise Leonard. Tony Pastor gave her the name ' Lillian Russell, for the very practical reason, I believe, that it had so many "l's" in it, and consequently would look well on a bill-board.