Querquerni

Of Celtic/Celtiberian origin, from Proto-Celtic *kʷerkʷernos, from *kʷerkʷus, from Proto-Indo-European *pérkus ~ *pr̥kʷéu- (“oak”) + *-erno-, probably meaning the "Oaken People".

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kʷerˈkʷer.niː/, [kʷɛrˈkʷɛrniː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kwerˈkwer.ni/, [kwerˈkwɛrni]

Querquernī m pl (genitive Querquernōrum); second declension

1. A Celtic tribe of Gallaecia, Hispania Tarraconensis

Second-declension noun, plural only.

• Querquerni in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “Gallaecia”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• Aquae Quarquernae, Quarquerni in Falileyev, Alexander (1997). Dictionary of Continental Celtic Place-Names, Aberystwyth University.