Güeñes
Bizkaia · VizcayaEuskadi · País Vasco
Compound Basque toponym. Gu ('we') plus ene (genitive, 'our') and locative suffix, designating 'our place' in communal neighbourhood sense.
Town of the Vizcayan Encartaciones, founded by charter of the lord of Vizcaya in 1338. Traditional centre of Cadagua iron siderurgy between the 14th and 18th centuries.
Evolution of the name
- *gu-ene Old Basque before the 13th century
- Güeñes modern Basque from the 13th century
Glossary
- Cadagua ironworks
- Traditional siderurgical system of the Vizcayan Encartaciones (14th-18th centuries) based on hydraulic ironworks that took advantage of the Cadagua river's force to move the hammers and bellows of the reduction furnaces. The Encartaciones produced agricultural hardware, arms and domestic utensils marketed throughout the Cantabrian coast.
- 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.
- Locative suffix
- A Castilian ending marking "place of" or "workshop where X is worked": -ería (panadería, herrería), -ero/-era (barquera, Itero "place of the road"). From the Latin -arium.
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