Where does “velar” come from?

velar (Galician) comes from Galician vela, from Old Portuguese vela, from Latin vēla, from Latin vēlum, from Proto-Italic *wekslom.

velar (Galician): to keep vigil

Definitions

velar traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.

Step	Language	Word	Meaning
1	Galician	vela	a sail; sailing; watch, vigil
2	Old Portuguese	vela	—
3	Latin	vēla	—
4	Latin	vēlum	a cloth, covering, curtain, veil, awning
5	Proto-Italic	*wekslom	—

Step	Language	Word	Meaning
1	Latin	vēlāris	of or relating to cloths, veils or curtains
2	Latin	-āris	first conjugation
3	Latin	-ālis	—
4	Proto-Italic	-ālis	forms relational adjectives

Step	Language	Word	Meaning
1	Latin	vēlō	to cover, wrap, veil
2	Latin	-ō	suffixed to nouns or adjectives. Originally a-stem nouns. Later extended to nouns with other stems. Forms regular first-conjugation verbs
3	Proto-Indo-European	-ō	Derives nouns from roots