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Etimología de Aretxabaleta

Aretxabaleta, Debagoiena / Alto Deba, Gipuzkoa

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Etimología de Aretxabaleta

Curiosity · Aretxabaleta, Debagoiena / Alto Deba, Gipuzkoa

Image of Aretxabaleta, not of the place itself.

According to the linguist Koldo Mitxelena, the place name comes from 'areitz' (oak), 'zabal' (wide) and the locative suffix '-eta', meaning 'place of wide oaks'. The official Basque spelling 'Aretxabaleta' was adopted in 1980.

1980

Photo: Marisol Murua (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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