data

English translation: gift / grant of land (Canary Islands)

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Spanish term or phrase:	data
English translation:	gift / grant of land (Canary Islands)
Entered by:	Charles Davis

19:35 Dec 21, 2016

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Art/Literary - History / Text from the Canary Islands

Spanish term or phrase: data

En al ámbito del Paisaje Cultural y sus aledaños destacan Fernando Guanarteme beneficiado con la data de Guayedra o Hernán Sánchez Ventidagua, alcalde de Agaete, propietario del cortijo de Tirma, y de hitos de carácter simbólico-religioso tan significativos como El Bentayga (Fructuoso, 1964).

I've looked up DRAE but can't see what data could mean in this context. Tired brain ... Any help would be much appreciated :-) Thinking that Guayedra may be an official title ... so .... who enjoyed the title of Guayedra ... but can't find a reference to Guayedra to find out what it means in the Canaries ...

Lorna O'Donoghue KudoZ activity Questions: 1805 (7 open) (42 closed without grading) Answers: 65
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gift / grant of land (Canary Islands)

Explanation:
I'll repeat here the definitions I found on the Academia Canaria de la Lengua website, from their Diccionario básico de canarismos and posted in the discussion area:

"data
1. f. Documento público mediante el cual el gobernador o, en su caso, el señor, a raíz de la conquista de una isla, concede tierras u otros bienes a conquistadores y vecinos. Hay algunas datas escritas en portugués.
2. f. Tierra u otros bienes que el gobernador o, en su caso, el señor de una isla, en virtud de un poder especial otorgado por los reyes, repartía entre conquistadores o vecinos. El gobernador concede en las datas unas tierras con agua o de sequero con una extensión determinada en cahíces o fanegas."
http://www.academiacanarialengua.org/palabra/data/

So then it's a Canarian word for a historical grant of land by the governor of an island and can mean both the land granted and the document by which the grant was made.

This "data" in your document, however, was granted by the Catholic Monarchs themselves to don Fernando Guanarteme in 1485:
http://www.grupoelcalvario.com/NotasInformativas/Cortijo_de_... (p. 17)

And since it's a place name it should be left as is; the translation could be added either in parentheses after "data" or in a note, if you wish.

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Charles Davis
Spain
Local time: 09:18

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Thanks a million Charles. This has been a great help.
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gift / grant of land (Canary Islands)

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David Hollywood

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Charles Davis

Spain

23:12 Dec 21, 2016

Thank you for your encouragement, gentlemen. I have posted an answer.

David Hollywood

22:55 Dec 21, 2016

I think the suggested ideas of "grant" or "gift" are certainly on the right track

Jennifer Levey

Chile

@Charles

22:54 Dec 21, 2016

It'd be nice to see an answer here to which I could nail a well-earned agrí. Not that you need the Ks, of course; but this really ought to find its way into the glossary.

Charles Davis

Spain

22:00 Dec 21, 2016

That is from their Diccionario básico de canarismos, by the way.

Charles Davis

Spain

Academia Canaria de la Lengua

21:59 Dec 21, 2016

" data.
1. f. Documento público mediante el cual el gobernador o, en su caso, el señor, a raíz de la conquista de una isla, concede tierras u otros bienes a conquistadores y vecinos. Hay algunas datas escritas en portugués.
2. f. Tierra u otros bienes que el gobernador o, en su caso, el señor de una isla, en virtud de un poder especial otorgado por los reyes, repartía entre conquistadores o vecinos. El gobernador concede en las datas unas tierras con agua o de sequero con una extensión determinada en cahíces o fanegas."
http://www.academiacanarialengua.org/palabra/data/

Charles Davis

Spain

21:54 Dec 21, 2016

Ah, I see: DRAE from 1791 onwards. I doubt this is related to that, though.

Charles Davis

Spain

21:38 Dec 21, 2016

PS. Where did you get "data=Permiso por escrito" from?

Charles Davis

Spain

@Donal

21:37 Dec 21, 2016

I am sure you are right. This seems to be an archaic Canarian use of the word. José de Viera y Clavijo, the eighteenth-century Canarian historian, uses it in what is clearly this sense:

"haciendoles plena donacion de aquel territorio [...]. Esta data fue en 4 de diciembre de 1534."
"les dió nuevas pruebas de su beneficencia con otra data de algunas tierras."
"para cuya obra pía señaló cierta data de tierras en la Orotava"
https://books.google.es/books?id=P9M0Ou47wikC&pg=RA3-PA412&l...

He also uses it to mean date, but that's standard.

If you search for "data de tierra" you'll find a few more Canarian examples, mostly C15-16.

So "gift" or "grant" if you wanted to translate it.

DLyons

Ireland

20:13 Dec 21, 2016

My guess is that "data de tierra" is a land gift (dar) for services rendered e.g. to soldiers. This being effected by data=Permiso por escrito para hacer algo.

Robert Carter

Mexico

19:59 Dec 21, 2016

Well spotted DLyons. From the looks of things "data" might refer to some kind of land feature, possibly this:

3. f. Abertura para desviar de un embalse o de una corriente de agua parte de su caudal.
http://dle.rae.es/?id=BsM9P0S|BsNR3r2

Perhaps the property contains such a feature.

Lorna O'Donoghue

ASKER

Thanks a million

19:53 Dec 21, 2016

... so it is .. :-)

DLyons

Ireland

19:41 Dec 21, 2016

Name of a property - see Section IW of http://www.benmagec.org/turcon/pdf/grancanaria/rgc1ocr.pdf

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gift / grant of land (Canary Islands)

Charles Davis
Spain
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Thanks a million Charles. This has been a great help.

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Reference

Reference information:
Se casó con Abenehara. Dejó como descendencia a las infantas Catalina
Hernández y Margarita Fernández ( Guayarmina ) que se casó con Miguel de Trexo
Carvajal el cual figura en el “Deslinde de Guayedra”.
Murió en Tenerife (1.496), aunque sus descendientes conservan hacienda y títulos.
Los Reyes Católicos le cedieron “La Data de Guayedra” por sus acciones a favor de la Corona.

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Note added at 3 hrs (2016-12-21 22:52:53 GMT)
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http://www.grupoelcalvario.com/NotasInformativas/Cortijo_de_...

can't come up with anythjing in English yet but this should help

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Note added at 3 hrs (2016-12-21 22:53:20 GMT)
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oops and should read "anything"

David Hollywood
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 68

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