euskara
See also: Euskara
Basque
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editOstensibly from Proto-Basque *euskala. It certainly contains the suffix -(k)era, -(k)ara (“in the manner of”) added to some rather obscure first element. This component may be connected to Ausci, the Latin name of an Aquitanian tribe documented by Pliny, although the initial diphthongs are different.[1]
Alternatively, it has been pointed out that the historiographer Esteban de Garibay (1533-1599) wrote euskara as enusquera, with intervocalic -n-. Thus, the unknown component could also be interpreted as coming from Proto-Basque *enauśi (“to say, tell”), whence the stem -io- (or -iño in Biscayan) of Modern Basque esan. The entire compound would therefore mean “way of saying”.[1]
Pronunciation
editNoun
editeuskara inan
- the Basque language
Declension
editDeclension of euskara (inanimate, singular only, ending in -a)
indefinite | singular | |
---|---|---|
absolutive | euskara | euskara |
ergative | — | euskarak |
dative | — | euskarari |
genitive | — | euskararen |
comitative | — | euskararekin |
causative | — | euskararengatik |
benefactive | — | euskararentzat |
instrumental | euskaraz | euskaraz |
inessive | — | euskaran |
locative | — | — |
allative | — | — |
terminative | — | — |
directive | — | — |
destinative | — | — |
ablative | — | — |
partitive | euskararik | — |
prolative | euskaratzat | — |
Derived terms
edit- euskaradun (“Basque speaker”)
- euskarakada
- euskaratu (“to translate into Basque”)
- euskaratzaile
Related terms
edit- Euskadi
- euskal (“Basque”)
- Euskal Herria (“Basque Country”)
- euskalari
- euskaldun (“Basque, Basque speaker”)
- euskalki (“dialect of Basque”)
- euskaltzain (“member of Euskaltzaindia”)
- euskaltzale (“Bascophile”)
References
edit- ↑ 1.0 1.1 “euskara” in Etymological Dictionary of Basque by R. L. Trask, sussex.ac.uk
Further reading
edit- “euskara”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005
- “euskara”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], Euskaltzaindia
Spanish
editNoun
editeuskara m (plural euskaras)
- Alternative form of euskera
Further reading
edit- “euskara”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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