Where does “Gales” come from?
Gales (Galician) comes from Galician -és, from Old Portuguese -és, from Latin -ensis, from Latin arvum, from Latin colō, from Latin quelō, from Proto-Italic kʷelō, from Proto-Indo-European kʷéleti — to turn.
Gales (Galician): Welsh; Welshman
Ancestry of “Gales”, step by step