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About the Chamorro surname

origins

Basque etymology

Meaning:

  1. weevil
  2. caterpillar
  3. black insects that live in the ground

Gipuzkoan: txamo, txamorro 1, txamorro 3 ('tx' like 'ch' in "church")

Bizkaian: txamo 2

High Navarrese: txamuru 1

Spanish etymology

Meaning:

  1. leg of pork
  2. beardless [wheat]
  3. bald
  4. close-cropped
  5. shorn/shaven/[hair or wool] cut close to the surface

sources

regarding the Chamori/Chamoru/Chamorro people of the Mariana Islands

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Balázs Déri

Chamorro people of Guam may be named after Umu ,son of Savea,king of Samoa ,
identical with Umuur ,son of Saabe in the Somalian genealogies,
who was also called Oromo ( Orro-Mo ).
Saabe himself is identical with Ayar Auca ,brother of Manco Capac of Umasuyu in
Peru of the Holy Land of America ,called Ul-Umasui in Samoa ,from whom Sabela
nobility called also Auca may well be descended .

His name was also K'ist in the tradition of the Auk and related tribes in the Caucas .
This is a version of Khristus ,that was given also to Iohannes of Giskhala,
who was maternally a descendant of Hyrkanos Iohannes ,apparently inherited his name .
He was namely a son of Olympia ( A Limpia ) ,daughter of Héródés married to Ióséphos,
another son from another woman,or a fosterson of the same .
Hyrkan ruled until about 104 BC ,that is equivalkent of 1283 according to the aera of
begin in 1387 BC used nowadays globally .
K'ist's son was Cha or Chard ,that may be the version of Arethas ( Ared-Tsha ) ,
king of Nabataia ,who according to this could be one of the five sons of Hyrkan .
Arethas thus may be identical with Umuur ,that is Cha may be identical with Orro-Mo and
Chamorro nobility may be named after him : Cha-Mo-Orro .

Oromo tribe among the Yurakare may also be descended from him ,as well as
Umurano in Peru.
In the latters' language MPARAWAN means a woman,just as does PALAW'AN in
Chamorro.
This might mean that a female ancestor of the two tribes might have been native of
Palawan or of Palau .
There may be other related words in the two languages .

See Chamorri,Umu,Sabel,Weinachter,Papp,Pao,Tuna,Suomi,Kristic,Svoboda,Swoboda,
Sloboda,Oromo,Moro,Oro,Pahlavi,Csárdi,Arca,Wohlgemuth,Kamenev,Feingold,
Leopold,Ndebele,Sabler,Edelsztajn,Edlstein and others !
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