Proto-Basque: *oɫha
Meaning: 1 forge, foundry 2 country house, cabin, cottage 3 shepherd's hut 4 tent
Bizkaian: ola 1
Gipuzkoan: ola 1
High Navarrese: ola 1
Low Navarrese: olha 1
Lapurdian: olha 2, 4
Zuberoan: ólha 1, 2, 3
Roncalese: (Vidángoz) õla 2
Comments: Ol(h)a is an element in numerous place names. Semantic development seems to have been ‘hearth, forge’ > ‘heated room’ > ‘cabin’, etc. (For typology cf. Eng. stove ~ Norw. stova (stue) ‘cottage, hut; (living-) room’, Swed. stuga ‘cottage, cabin’, Ger. Stube ‘room’ (orig. ‘heated room’), etc.) The meaning ‘forge’ has been extended to ‘factory’ in modern Bsq.
