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Koldo Mitxelena believes that Xaho created it from the Souletin Basque expression aitoren semeak or aitonen semeak ("gentry", literally "sons of good fathers" interpreted as "sons of Aitor", aita meaning "father" and on meaning "good" [1] [3]) After Xaho, it was popularized by the Spanish-language novel Amaya o los vascos en el siglo VIII ...
Some Euskaldun berriak (' new Basque-speakers ', i.e. second-language Basque-speakers) with Spanish as their first language tend to carry the prosodical patterns of Spanish into their pronunciation of Basque, e.g. pronouncing nire ama (' my mum ') as nire áma (– – ´ –), instead of as niré amà (– ´ – `).
Aita Donostia in 1930. José Gonzalo Zulaica (10 January 1886 in San Sebastián, Spain – 30 August 1956), better known by his pen name Aita Donostia (Father Donostia or Father San Sebastian, because he was a priest born in San Sebastian, Donostia in the Basque language), was a Spanish and Basque musicologist and composer. [1]
Another theory, partially developed by the Aragonese jurist Joaquín Costa, relates that suffix to the Berber *ait, which means both "son of" and "the tribe", or with *at, meaning "people." This theory that supports that "aide" ( aita ) is a relative in Basque .
Jose Miguel Barandiaran Aierbe (Spanish: José Miguel de Barandiarán y Ayerbe; 31 December 1889 – 21 December 1991), known as On Joxemiel Barandiaran and Aita Barandiaran ("Father Barandiaran"), was a Basque anthropologist, ethnographer, and priest.
Basque immigrants began arriving in Idaho in the late 1800s.
The engraving used an early Basque alphabet, experts said, the oldest and most extensive text ever written in the Basque language. The writing proved difficult to decipher.
Since the introduction of Standard Basque and a common written standard, the number of non-indigenous spelling variants has begun to decrease, especially in Spain, taking on a form in accordance with the meaning of the surname in Basque, which remains irrelevant in other language spellings. The Basque Language Academy keeps a database with the ...