euskara
See also: Euskara
BasqueEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
Ostensibly 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]
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
euskara
- The Basque language
DeclensionEdit
| Declension of euskara (inanimate, singular only, ending in -a) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | singular | plural | |
| 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 | — | — |
SynonymsEdit
Derived termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 “euskara” in Etymological Dictionary of Basque by R. L. Trask, sussex.ac.uk
Further readingEdit
- “euskara” in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], euskaltzaindia.eus
- "euskara" in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], euskaltzaindia.eus
SpanishEdit
NounEdit
euskara m (plural euskaras)
- Alternative spelling of euskera
Further readingEdit
- “euskara”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014