Onomastics

Synopsis

This work is the result of the research project being conducted by Euskaltzaindia into the historical toponymy of Vitoria-Gasteiz, including its 64 localities. Following publication of the work on Malizaeza, Ubarrundia, Langraiz and Arratzua, it is now the turn of Dibiña, which is to be presented in two volumes. This book, Dibiña I, corresponds to the first part of the study of this merindad, and contains the toponymy of Abetxuku / Abechuco, Andetxa / Antezana, Arangiz, Foronda, Lopida / Lopidana, Mendiguren and Ihurre.

The Academy's database for this project contains nearly 400,000 toponymic records. The toponymy research in Dibiña I worked with a corpus of 27,000 records, and this volume presents about 10,200 documentary samples and 1,106 toponymic entries, ordered, classified and with the pertinent observations.