ahabia

ahabia

Basque

Alternative forms

• ahabe (Souletin)
• arabia

Etymology

From Proto-Basque *anabi.[1] Compare also Spanish anavia, Catalan nabiu, Aragonese anayón, Gascon anajon and Languedocien abajon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Southern) /abia/, [a.β̞i.a]
• IPA^(key): (Northern) /ahabia/, [a.ɦa.β̞i.a]

Noun

ahabia inan

1. bilberry, whortleberry

Declension

Declension of ahabia (inanimate, ending in -a)
	indefinite	singular	plural
absolutive	ahabia	ahabia	ahabiak
ergative	ahabiak	ahabiak	ahabiek
dative	ahabiari	ahabiari	ahabiei
genitive	ahabiaren	ahabiaren	ahabien
comitative	ahabiarekin	ahabiarekin	ahabiekin
causative	ahabiarengatik	ahabiarengatik	ahabiengatik
benefactive	ahabiarentzat	ahabiarentzat	ahabientzat
instrumental	ahabiaz	ahabiaz	ahabiez
inessive	ahabiatan	ahabian	ahabietan
locative	ahabiatako	ahabiako	ahabietako
allative	ahabiatara	ahabiara	ahabietara
terminative	ahabiataraino	ahabiaraino	ahabietaraino
directive	ahabiatarantz	ahabiarantz	ahabietarantz
destinative	ahabiatarako	ahabiarako	ahabietarako
ablative	ahabiatatik	ahabiatik	ahabietatik
partitive	ahabiarik	—	—
prolative	ahabiatzat	—	—

References

1. “ahabia” in Etymological Dictionary of Basque by R. L. Trask, sussex.ac.uk

Further reading

• "ahabia" in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], euskaltzaindia.eus
• “ahabia” in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], euskaltzaindia.eus
• Mitxelena, Koldo L. (1961) Fonética histórica vasca [Basque Historical Phonetics] (Obras completas de Luis Michelena; 1) (in Spanish), Diputación Foral de Guipuzkoa, published 1990, →ISBN, pages 266, 800
• Agud, Manuel; Tovar, Antonio (1994), “Materiales Para Un Diccionario Etimológico De La Lengua Vasca (I-XXI)”, in Anuario Del Seminario De Filología Vasca «Julio De Urquijo» (in Spanish), volume I, Diputación Foral de Guipúzcoa, DOI:10.1387/asju.8625, page 262