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Article #214Re: Surname Arizoca
From: Larry Trask
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 00:00
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 00:00
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This surname is unknown to me, and is not listed in Michelena's _Apellidos vascos_, which, however, does not pretend to be exhaustive. The first element appears to be obviously <haritz> `oak tree', which is very common in surnames. But the last bit is mysterious. There is a surname <Arizola>, containing the common final element <ola>, which usually just means `place' in surnames. And I would not be surprised to encounter a surname *<Arizoki>, with the element <-oki> `place', though no such name is listed in Michelena. But <Arizoka> I find a little mysterious. There is a river called the <Oka>, but river names do not normally feature in Basque surnames. Larry Trask COGS University of Sussex Brighton BN1 9QH England larryt@cogs.susx.ac.uk
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