Re: [tied] Portuguese queirós x haithjo heath

In Costa Rica, where the Quirós are an aristocratic
family, they say
"Al lado de Dios, Quirós"
I think the Costa Rican Quirós are of Asturian
ancestry
Your derivation seems interesting but given that the
last names in question are, I believe, Galician,
Asturian and N. Portuguese, then why not Celtic *kaet-
(vel sim)? "wood, forest, etc."?


--- "Joao S. Lopes" <josimo70@...> wrote:

> The Portuguese/Spanish surnames Queirós, Quirós,
> Queiroga came from a word queiro´s (<*queiroos)
> designating a kind of heath Calluna vulgaris. Are
> these name related to Germanic *xaithjo: "heath"?
> Portuguese queirós < *quedrolos < *caedr- <
> *chaithr- ?
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> Joao SL
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