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Does anyone have any idea what Amagoia (or Amagoya) means? It's a feminine name, possibly Basque. It's the name of a character in the book Amaya o los vascos en el siglo VIII (Amaya, or the Basques in the 8th century), written in 1879 by the Spanish Navarrese author Francisco Navarro Villoslada.
I looked it up on the Basque Language Academy's website (http://www.euskaltzaindia.net/index.php), which I'm told is a reliable website for Basque names. All it says is "Personaje de la novela de N. Villoslada Amaya o los vascos en el siglo VIII, madre de Amaia" (Character in the novel by N. Villoslada "Amaya, or the Basques in the 8th century", mother of [the character] Amaia). Unfortunately it doesn't say anything about the etymology. Does anyone know what it could mean, or was it just coined by the author?
I looked it up on the Basque Language Academy's website (http://www.euskaltzaindia.net/index.php), which I'm told is a reliable website for Basque names. All it says is "Personaje de la novela de N. Villoslada Amaya o los vascos en el siglo VIII, madre de Amaia" (Character in the novel by N. Villoslada "Amaya, or the Basques in the 8th century", mother of [the character] Amaia). Unfortunately it doesn't say anything about the etymology. Does anyone know what it could mean, or was it just coined by the author?
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