Etymology

Amaya

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Today it means: A female given name from Spanish borrowed from Spanish in the 1990s. Full definition →

Basque amai
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The story

  1. Basque · derived fromamai“the end”
  2. English todayAmaya

Heroine of a Spanish historical novel Amaya o los vascos del siglo VIII (1877) by F. Navarro Villoslada, explained as Basque amai (“the end”).

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