Where does “maltés” come from?
maltés (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.
maltés (Galician): Maltese
Ancestry of “maltés”, step by step