Portugal (a country in Southern Europe, on the Iberian Peninsula; official name: República Portuguesa; capital and largest city: Lisboa)
köken: Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese Portugal, from Latin Portucale < Portus Cale, former name of what is now the city of Vila Nova de Gaia. Cognate with Fala and Galician Portugal.
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per- Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Indo-European *pértusder. Proto-Italic *portus Latin portus Latin Callus? Latin Portus Cale Late Latin Portucale Old Galician-Portuguese Portugal Portuguese Purtugalbor. Classical Persian پُرْتُگَال (purtugāl)bor. English Portugalinflu. Hindi पुर्तगाल Borrowed from Classical Persian پُرْتُگَال (purtugāl), influenced by…
Phono-semantic matching of Portuguese Portugal, possibly via Hokkien 葡萄牙 (Phû-tô-gâ). Attested in 海國聞見錄 [1730] by Chen Lunjiong (陳倫烱). The selection of 葡萄 (“grape”) in the phonetic transcription alludes to the importance of viniculture to the early Portuguese missionaries to China, who used grapes to make sacramental wine (葡萄酒). Compare 西班牙 (Xībānyá, “Spain”).