Editing Navarre (section)

== Toponymy ==

The first documented use of a name resembling ''Navarra'', ''Nafarroa'', or ''Naparroa'' is a reference to ''navarros'', in [[Eginhard]]'s early-9th-century chronicle of the feats of the [[Holy Roman Empire|Holy Roman Emperor]] [[Charlemagne]], describing his intrusion to the Ebro river.<ref name="Auñamendi">[[Bernardo Estornés Lasa]]'s Spanish article on  [http://www.euskomedia.org/aunamendi/96788 Navarra] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120112133908/http://www.euskomedia.org/aunamendi/96788 |date=2012-01-12 }} in the [[Auñamendi Entziklopedia]] (click on "NAVARRA – NAFARROA (NOMBRE Y EMBLEMAS)")</ref> Other [[Royal Frankish Annals]] feature {{lang|es|nabarros}}. There are two proposed etymologies for the name.<ref name="Auñamendi"/>

* Basque ''nabar'' (declined [[Absolutive case|absolute]] [[Grammatical number|singular]] ''nabarra''): "brownish", "multicolour" (i. e. in contrast to the green mountainous lands north of the original County of Navarre).
* Basque ''naba'' (or Spanish ''nava''): "valley", "plain" + Basque ''herri'' ("people", "land").

The linguist [[Joan Coromines]] considers ''naba'' to be linguistically part of a wider [[Vasconic]] or [[Aquitanian language]] substrate, rather than Basque ''per se''.

The official name in Basque is ''{{lang|eu|Nafarroa}}'', but the form ''{{lang|eu|Nafarroa Garaia}} "Upper Navarre"'' is also often seen, to distinguish the province from neighboring [[Lower Navarre]].