forgot to add the source but it’s the academy of the basque language (euskaltzaindia) as always, specifically the atlas of local ways of speaking and the euskara ibiltaria project
also, for etymologies of the word weasel:
“ogitagastai”, used in most of bizkaia, means “bread and cheese” in basque, probably bc of the offerings to weasels in pagan times, as well as “panikesa” in the town of mezkiritz in northeastern navarre, which is basically “paniquesa” spelled in basque, from spanish “pan y queso” (also bread and cheese). paniquesa is also used in spanish from aragón and in aragonese.
EDIT: the name above might be bc people used bread and cheese as a way of keeping off weasels from lambs! source (thank you @beautiful-basque-country for pointing it out!)
“mustela/mustera” in the bizkaian northeast is the latin name for the weasel, mustela nivalis
“satandera”, used in the central towns of the deba valley in western gipuzkoa, as well as “xatandre” in the town of jaurrieta, in northeastern navarre, come from the prefix “sa(t)-” and “andera/andre/etc”, which means “woman” or “lady”. the prefix “sa(t)-” is also used in words like “sator” (mole), “sagarroi” (hedgehog) and “sagu” (mouse), but i wouldn’t know what it means exactly
“erbiñure”, used in most of gipuzkoa and northern navarre, comes from “inude” (wet nurse). it’s telling me that the word “comadreja” meant both “weasel” and “wet nurse” in spanish but i don’t know how accurate that info is because i can’t find “comadreja” with the meaning of “wet nurse”, i’ve only hear the word “nodriza”. it could be possible that “comadreja” (weasel) came from “comadre” (midwife)?
“añiñer”, “anddereder” and variations mean “beautiful woman/lady”. i guess we’ll never know why jhgfdfgh
“beleta” is a basque version of the french word for weasel, “belette”, which, according to wiktionary, comes from gaulish “*bela”, and further from proto-indoeuropean “*bʰel-“, but it’s not too clear whether that meant “weasel” in those languages or not. and the academy of the basque language tells me that it comes from the french “belle” (beautiful) so like. idk
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