Andoain
Gipuzkoa · GuipúzcoaPaís Vasco / Euskadi · País Vasco
Compound Basque toponym. Andoain, from the Basque andi ('big') plus -oain (locative variant), designates '(large) place', descriptive of the broad Oria valley where the urban centre sits.
The town is documented from 1379 with charter granted by John I of Castile. Manuel Larramendi (1690-1766), enlightened Jesuit and first grammatical codifier of Basque, was born here; his Arte de la lengua bascongada (1729) was the first published Basque grammar.
Evolution of the name
- andi + oain medieval Basque before the 13th century
- Andoain Basque from the 13th century
Glossary
- Carta puebla
- A medieval legal document by which a lord or king founded a new settlement, granting privileges and exemptions in exchange for occupying and defending the territory.
- Manuel Larramendi (1690-1766)
- Guipuzcoan Jesuit, grammarian and philologist, first codifier of Basque. Author of Arte de la lengua bascongada (1729, first published Basque grammar), Diccionario trilingüe del castellano, bascuence y latín (1745) and De la antigüedad y universalidad del bascuence en España (1728), where he defended Basque as the original peninsular language.
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