"euskara" meaning in Basque

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Noun

IPA: /eu̯s̺kaɾa/, [e̞u̯s̺.ka.ɾa] Audio: LL-Q8752 (eus)-Xabier Cañas-euskara.wav
Etymology: Ostensibly from Proto-Basque *euskala. It certainly contains the suffix -(k)era, -(k)ara (“in the manner of”) added to some rather obscure first element. This component may be connected to Ausci, the Latin name of an Aquitanian tribe documented by Pliny, although the initial diphthongs are different. Alternatively, it has been pointed out that the historiographer Esteban de Garibay (1533-1599) wrote euskara as enusquera, with intervocalic -n-. Thus, the unknown component could also be interpreted as coming from Proto-Basque *enauśi (“to say, tell”), whence the stem -io- (or -iño in Biscayan) of Modern Basque esan. The entire compound would therefore mean “way of saying”. Etymology templates: {{inh|eu|euq-pro|*euskala}} Proto-Basque *euskala, {{m|eu|-era|-(k)era}} -(k)era, {{m|eu|-era|-(k)ara|t=in the manner of}} -(k)ara (“in the manner of”), {{m|la|Ausci}} Ausci, {{cog|euq-pro|*enauśi|t=to say, tell}} Proto-Basque *enauśi (“to say, tell”), {{m|eu||-io-}} -io-, {{m|eu||-iño}} -iño, {{cog|eu|esan}} Basque esan Head templates: {{head|eu|noun}} euskara Inflection templates: {{eu-decl-inanim|s=1}} Forms: inanimate [table-tags], euskara [absolutive, indefinite], euskara [absolutive, singular], - [ergative, indefinite], euskarak [ergative, singular], - [dative, indefinite], euskarari [dative, singular], - [genitive, indefinite], euskararen [genitive, singular], - [comitative, indefinite], euskararekin [comitative, singular], - [causative, indefinite], euskararengatik [causative, singular], - [benefactive, indefinite], euskararentzat [benefactive, singular], euskaraz [indefinite, instrumental], euskaraz [instrumental, singular], - [indefinite, inessive], euskaran [inessive, singular], - [indefinite, locative], - [locative, singular], - [allative, indefinite], - [allative, singular], - [indefinite, terminative], - [singular, terminative], - [directive, indefinite], - [directive, singular], - [destinative, indefinite], - [destinative, singular], - [ablative, indefinite], - [ablative, singular], euskararik [indefinite, partitive], - [partitive, singular], euskaratzat [indefinite, prolative], - [prolative, singular]
  1. The Basque language Categories (topical): Languages Synonyms: euskera, euskera [Biscayan, Gipuzkoan] Derived forms: Euskadi, Euskal Herria, euskalari, euskaldun, euskalki, euskaltzain, euskaltzale, euskaratu
    Sense id: en-euskara-eu-noun-vg6U8DaE Categories (other): Basque entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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      "text": "Audio"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "euskera"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Biscayan",
        "Gipuzkoan"
      ],
      "word": "euskera"
    }
  ],
  "word": "euskara"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Basque dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.