Etymology

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Today it means: A female given name used in the U.S. in the end of the nineteenth century. Full definition →

Yoruba Ọlá ← Spanish Ola ← Basque ola
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The story

  1. Basque · derived fromola“forge”
  2. Spanish · borrowed fromOla
  3. Yoruba · borrowed fromỌlá
  4. English todayOla

Various origins: * Borrowed from Yoruba Ọlá. Ọlá is an extremely common prefix for Yoruba names (and serves as a common form of shortened names), coming from ọlá (“honor”) * Borrowed from Spanish Ola, a habitational surname from Basque ola (“forge”).

Words from the same roots

Basqueola all →

Olazabal

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.