<P> The Portuguese language is also the only Romance language that developed the clitic case mesoclisis: cf . dar - te - ei (I'll give thee), amar - te - ei (I'll love you), contactá - los - ei (I'll contact them). It was also the only Western Romance language to retain the Latin synthetic pluperfect tense: eu estivera (I had been), eu vivera (I had lived), vós vivêreis (you had lived). Romanian also has this tense, but uses the - s - form . </P> <P> Most of the lexicon of Portuguese is derived, directly or through other Romance languages, from Latin . Nevertheless, because of its original Celtiberian heritage and later the participation of Portugal in the Age of Discovery, it has some Gallaecian words and adopted loanwords from all over the world . </P> <P> A number of Portuguese words can still be traced to the pre-Roman inhabitants of Portugal, which included the Gallaeci, Lusitanians, Celtici and Cynetes . Most of these words derived from Celtic and are very often shared with Galician since both languages share a common origin in the medieval language of Galician - Portuguese . A few of these words existed in Latin as loanwords from a Celtic source, often Gaulish . Altogether these are over 1,000 words, some verbs and toponymic names of towns, rivers, utensils and plants . </P> <P> In the 5th century, the Iberian Peninsula (the Roman Hispania) was conquered by the Germanic Suebi and Visigoths . As they adopted the Roman civilization and language, however, these people contributed with some 500 Germanic words to the lexicon . Many of these words are related to warfare--such as espora "spur", estaca "stake", and guerra "war", from Gothic * spaúra, * stakka, and * wirro, respectively . The Germanic languages influence also exists in toponymic surnames and patronymic surnames borne by Visigoth sovereigns and their descendants, and it dwells on placenames such has Ermesinde, Esposende and Resende where sinde and sende are derived from the Germanic "sinths" (military expedition) and in the case of Resende, the prefix re comes from Germanic "reths" (council). Other examples of Portuguese names, surnames and town names of Germanic toponymic origin include Henrique, Henriques, Vermoim, Mandim, Calquim, Baguim, Gemunde, Guetim, Sermonde and many more, are quite common mainly in the old Suebi and later Visigothic dominated regions, covering today's Northern half of Portugal and Galicia . </P>

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