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abarca "sandal" (cf. Basque abarka < abar "branch", because they were originally made of branches). The word was loaned in Mozarabic and even in Arab pargha/bargha and from here to Spanish alpargata (Trask 2008, 74). abertzale / aberzale "Basque patriot, Basque nationalist" (cf. Basque abertzale). Recent loanword as it is a Basque neologism ...
See as example Category:English words. Subcategories. ... Pages in category "Basque words and phrases" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total.
For example, pidgin berrua usnia ('warm milk-DET') versus Basque esne beroa ('milk warm-DET'). [ 22 ] Although there are quite a few Spanish and French words listed in the glossaries, this is not a sign of the pidgin language, but rather a result of French and Spanish influence on the Basque language throughout the ages, since Basque has taken ...
irrintzi — whoop of joy typical of Basque shepherds when they are in the mountains, and of Basque people in general; irri-orro — smudge. isilka-misilka — whispering. iski-miski — trivialities. ito-ito — a big hurry. itsu-itsu — blindly. itx-atx — not a word. ixil-mixil — secret conversation. ixo — shhh, hush. izka-mizka ...
In Basque literally Basque realm. The term traditionally in use in different Basque spoken dialects, it was first used in writing (in alavese Basque dialect) in the 16th century and enjoyed renaissance with growing number of Basque prints since the 1880s, filtering into Spanish and used usually as macaronic intercalation. Originally it could ...
I found some words with dd and tt; edder (nice), kuradde (encouragement), kuraddea kendu (to discourage) and gelatto (small room, from gela), kuttun (favourite, beloved), kotxetto (small car, from kotxe). Also, the word Xiismo is more a loan word for a religious practice, it is akin to Portuguese xiismo, Catalan xiisme, Spanish chiismo, English ...
For every 3 non-theme words you find, you earn a hint. Hints show the letters of a theme word. If there is already an active hint on the board, a hint will show that word’s letter order.
An example of Basque lettering in a funerary stela. Basque is written using the Latin script including ñ and sometimes ç and ü . Basque does not use c, q, v, w, y for native words, but the Basque alphabet (established by Euskaltzaindia) does include them for loanwords: [82]