Hileko Hitza: Amachi
January’s word of the month is….
Amachi, Amatxi, Matxi (n.)
Grandmother in the Euskara dialect from Iparralde
Submitted by a student
I learned "Amachi" when I was very young, because that was how everyone in my family called my Basque grandmother, Marie Louise (Dufau) Falxa, who we saw regularly and who was the sweetest person. We all spelled her name "amachi", perhaps because of her Iparralde roots. I didn't learn "aitachi" unitl later because my aitachi died before I was born.
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