Where does “portuguès” come from?
portuguès (Catalan) comes from Catalan portugalès, from Medieval Latin portucalensis, from Latin -ensis, from Latin arvum, from Latin colō, from Latin quelō, from Proto-Italic kʷelō, from Proto-Indo-European kʷéleti — to turn.
portuguès (Catalan): Portuguese
Ancestry of “portuguès”, step by step