Save Gender Feminine Usage Guanche Pronounced Pron. a-the-me-ye-GEH-gwa, a-se-me-ye-GEH-gwa [key] Meaning & History From Guanche *aẓămăy-əgiwa, meaning "sutures wounds" (literally "cut-sewer"). This was recorded as the name of a 30-year-old Guanche woman from Tenerife who was sold at the slave market in Valencia in 1494.