Aitor
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Aitor is a Basque
masculine
given name
, created by Agosti Xaho
for a Basque ancestral patriarch descending from the Biblical Tubal
in his work "The Legend of Aitor" (published in French in the journal Ariel
, 1845).
Luis Mitxelena believes that Xaho created it from the Souletin Basque expression aitoren semeak or aitonen semeak ("gentry", literally "sons of good fathers" interpreted as "sons of Aitor", aita meaning "father" and on meaning "good")
After Xaho, it was popularized by the Spanish-language novel Amaya o los vascos en el siglo VIII
.
Nowadays it is a common name among Basque males.
People with the name Aitor include:
Basque people
The Basques as an ethnic group, primarily inhabit an area traditionally known as the Basque Country , a region that is located around the western end of the Pyrenees on the coast of the Bay of Biscay and straddles parts of north-central Spain and south-western France.The Basques are known in the...
masculine
Masculine
Masculine or masculinity, normally refer to qualities positively associated with men.Masculine may also refer to:*Masculine , a grammatical gender*Masculine cadence, a final chord occurring on a strong beat in music...
given name
Given name
A given name, in Western contexts often referred to as a first name, is a personal name that specifies and differentiates between members of a group of individuals, especially in a family, all of whose members usually share the same family name...
, created by Agosti Xaho
Agosti Xaho
Augustin Chaho in French or Agosti Xaho in Basque was an important Romantic Basque writer. He was born in Tardets , Soule, French Basqueland in 10 October 1811 and died in Bayonne , Labourd 23 October 1858...
for a Basque ancestral patriarch descending from the Biblical Tubal
Tubal
Tubal, תובל or תבל , in Genesis 10 , was the name of a son of Japheth, son of Noah.Many authors, following the Jewish historian Flavius Josephus , related the name to Iber- Caucasian Iberia...
in his work "The Legend of Aitor" (published in French in the journal Ariel
Ariel
Ariel may refer to:-Film:*Ariel Award, a Mexican Academy of Film award*Ariel , a 1988 Finnish film by Aki Kaurismäki-People:*Ariel , any of several real or fictional people of that name...
, 1845).
Luis Mitxelena believes that Xaho created it from the Souletin Basque expression aitoren semeak or aitonen semeak ("gentry", literally "sons of good fathers" interpreted as "sons of Aitor", aita meaning "father" and on meaning "good")
After Xaho, it was popularized by the Spanish-language novel Amaya o los vascos en el siglo VIII
Amaya o los vascos en el siglo VIII
Amaya o los vascos en el siglo VIII is a Romantic historical novel published in 1879 by Francisco Navarro-Villoslada, a noted novel by a Navarrese author...
.
Nowadays it is a common name among Basque males.
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