Etymology

Zelaya

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Today it means: A surname. Full definition →

Spanish Zelaya ← Basque Zelaia
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The story

  1. Basque · derived fromZelaia
  2. Spanish · borrowed fromZelaya
  3. English todayZelaya

Borrowed from Spanish Zelaya, from Basque Zelaia, habitational surname from zelai (“field”).

Words from the same roots

BasqueZelaia all →

Celaya

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.