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Erle-maisua ‘beekeeper’ in Basque

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Posted on 2019-05-31 in

Beekeepers in Carranza (Bizkaia), 2003. Miguel Sabino Díaz.

Folks have kept bees in pretty much all inland locations of our country, be it out of curiosity or by tradition. Joxe Mari Gabaro, native of Markina (Bizkaia) and named after the house where he was born, owned several beehives to harvest honey from them. His fellow citizens would have referred to him as an erle-maisua, a similar compound to ontzi-maisua ‘quartermaster’, formed from erle ‘bee, beehive’ and maisu ‘master’, literally meaning ‘bee-master’. (more…)

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