Quiroga
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A debated etymology: from Galician queiruga / queiroga 'heather' —a place of heathland— or from a pre-Roman base, perhaps hydronymic, that the oldest forms seem to require.
Evolution of the name
- queiruga «brezo» / base prerromana Galician / pre-Roman debated
- Quiroga Galician medieval – modern
Reflections, to the letter
Look at the slopes: if they are purple with heather, you have before you the likeliest etymology of Quiroga, from Galician queiruga, 'heather', the 'place of heathland'. But do not fully trust it: some hear in the name a pre-Roman root, older than the plant, and the ancient forms give it wings. It is a toponym that will not be closed. In the chapel of A Hermida the Crismón de Quiroga is kept, of the 5th century, as old as the doubt; and to this municipality belongs the mountain Rome pierced at Montefurado. Walk on without resolving the name: there are places like that.
Sources
- Navaza, G. — Fitotoponimia galega (A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, 2006)
- Bascuas, E. — Estudios de hidronimia paleoeuropea gallega (Universidade de Santiago, 2002)
- Nomenclátor de Galicia (Xunta de Galicia)
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