name of Salazar

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

No: HPFGUIDX 76473

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)" 
<catlady at w...> wrote:
> 
> Silmariel wrote in 
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/75829 :
> 
> << It can't be a Basque name. I don't live there, but I hear and 
> read (not saying I understand) Basque enough to know there isn't a 
> syllable in Salazar matching Basque >>
> 
> I'm having trouble finding a source to cite, but "Salazar" is 
> supposed to mean "old hall" or "old palace" with "old" being the 
> Basque word "zahar' or "zara' or something like that.

I kept on looking and found some sources:
SALAZAR
Explicación de los componentes / Osagaien azalpena:
SALA-=SALA
-CASA, PALACIO, CORTIJO
-ZAR=ZAHAR
-VIEJO
Significado del apellido / Abizenaren esanahia:
SALA ZAHARRA
CASA O PALACIO VIEJO
Localización del apellido / Abizenaren kokapena:
BALMASEDA,GORDEXOLA,ORDUÑA/BIZKAIA

is what I got from:
http://www.kaixo.com/euskaletxea/

and http://www.buber.net/Basque/Surname/S/salazar.html says (among 
other things): "Well this is what Jaime Kerexeta says in his 
Diccionario Onomastico y heraldico Vasco.
The meaning: is sure that is a basque name; ZAR means old, and SALA is 
Palace, so te meaning is "The old Palace"."