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Spanish
Etymology
From a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia, possibly via a Vulgar Latin *anabionem.[1] Ultimately related to Basque ahabia (“blueberry”), Catalan nabiu (“bilberry”), Aragonese anayón (“blueberry”), Gascon anajon (“blueberry”) and Languedocien abajon.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /aˈnabja/
- Rhymes: -abja
- Syllabification: a‧na‧via
Noun
anavia f (plural anavias)
- (botany, dialectal) blueberry
- Synonym: arándano
References
- ^ Agud, Manuel, Tovar, Antonio (1988) “Materiales para un diccionario etimológico de la lengua vasca (I)”, in Anuario Del Seminario De Filología Vasca «Julio De Urquijo» (in Spanish), volume 22, number 1, Diputación Foral de Guipúzcoa, →DOI, →ISSN, page 262
Further reading
- “anavia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
- Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1984) Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volumes I (A–Ca), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 199
- Mitxelena, Koldo L. (1961) Fonética histórica vasca [Basque Historical Phonetics] (Obras completas de Luis Michelena; 1) (in Spanish), Diputación Foral de Guipuzkoa, published 1990, →ISBN, pages 266, 800