Deià

See also: deia, Deia, and DEIA

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Catalan Deià.

Proper noun

Deià

  1. A small coastal village in Mallorca, Balearic Islands.
    • 2023 August 25, Gisela Williams, Richard Pedaline, “A Local’s Guide to Majorca”, in The New York Times‎[1], →ISSN:
      By 1929, when the British writer Robert Graves and the American poet Laura Riding arrived in the nearby village of Deià — at the recommendation of the American writer Gertrude Stein — and later built a home there, that picturesque hamlet of stone houses and olive groves was already a fledgling artists’ colony.

Further reading

Catalan

Alternative forms

  • Deyà

Etymology

From Arabic ضَيْعَة (ḍayʕa, “village”). Doublet of aldea.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Deià f

  1. Deià (a coastal village in Mallorca, Balearic Islands)

Further reading

  • Deià on the Catalan Wikipedia.Wikipedia ca
  • “Deià” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
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