Navia
English edit
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Navia (plural Navias)
- A surname from Galician.
Statistics edit
- According to the 2010 United States Census, Navia is the 28525th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 836 individuals. Navia is most common among Hispanic/Latino (89.83%) individuals.
Further reading edit
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Navia”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 653.
Anagrams edit
Galician edit
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Etymology edit
Attested as Navia in Classical Latin (Pliny).[1] From a Celtic or pre-Celtic substrate language, ultimately a derivation of Proto-Indo-European *néh₂us (“boat”), *(s)neh₂- (“to swim”), perhaps meaning "navigable" (cf. Proto-Indo-Iranian *naHwiyás).
Cognate, among others, with the rivers Nahe ( < Nava) in Germany and Noe ( < Navio) in England.[2][3]
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Navia
- A river in Spain. It flows for some 160 km from Galicia to the Bay of Biscay in Asturias. In Roman times it marked the boundary in between Gallaeci and Astures
- A parish of Vigo, Pontevedra, Galicia
- a habitational surname
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See also edit
Navia on the Galician Wikipedia.Wikipedia gl
References edit
- “Navia” in Xavier Gómez Guinovart & Miguel Solla, Aquén. Vigo: Universidade de Vigo, 2007-2017.
- “Navia” in Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo / Xulio Sousa Fernández (dirs.): Cartografía dos apelidos de Galicia. Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
- ^ Curchin, Leonard A. (2008). "The toponyms of the Roman Galicia: New Study", Cuadernos de Estudios Gallegos, LV (121), pages 109-136.
- ^ Delamarre, Xavier (2012) Noms de lieux celtiques de l'Europe ancienne (-500 / +500): dictionnaire, Arles: Errance, →ISBN, page 204.
- ^ Greule, Albrecht (2014) Deutsches Gewässernamenbuch: Etymologie der Gewässernamen und der dazugehörigen Gebiets-, Siedlungs- und Flurnamen, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 369
Spanish edit
Proper noun edit
Navia m
- Navia (river)