Amaya is a female
given name of
Spanish,
Japanese, Kisii name meaning goodness and
Arabic origins, derived from the
village of Amaya and its neighboring
mountain in
Castile and León, Spain.[1] The name of the village, in turn, has Indo-European roots[2] and means "am (ma)" or "mother". The suffix io-ia can be used to form action names or toponyms, implying that the meaning of Amaya or Amaia is "mother city", as it will be called later, "the capital".[3] Another hypothesis is that the name derived from the
Proto-Basque or
Basque word Amaia, meaning "the end".[4][1][5] Variations include Amaia, Amayah, Ammaya, and Amya.
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abcPatrick Hanks, Dictionary of American Family Names (2003), p. 32.
^Lastra Barrio, José (2008). Amaya y Peones. Burgos: Publicaciones de la Excma. Diputación Provincial de Burgos y Caja Círculo.
ISBN978-84-95874-55-9. Pp. 13
^Lastra Barrio, José (2008). Amaya y Peones. Burgos: Publicaciones de la Excma. Diputación Provincial de Burgos y Caja Círculo.
ISBN978-84-95874-55-9. Pp. 13-14
^Justin Cord Hayes, The Terrible Meanings of Names (2013), p. 14.
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