page_title: Alçay-Alçabéhéty-Sunharette
section_title: Toponymy
hierarchical_section_title: Alçay-Alçabéhéty-Sunharette / Toponymy
caption_attribution_description: Alçay (Alçay-Alçabéhéty-Sunharette, Pyr-Atl, Fr) church and cemetery where some basque steles are visible
context_page_description: Alçay-Alçabéhéty-Sunharette is a commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in southwestern France.
context_section_description: The commune name in Basque is Altzai-Altzabeheti-Zunharreta.
  According to Jean-Baptiste Orpustan, the base (h)altz meaning "aulne" was used for the both toponyms Alcay and Alçabéhéty. beheti means "at the bottom".
  The name Sunharette comes from the Basque zunhar (Name from Soule meaning "elm" or "poplar") using the romanized locative suffix ette meaning the "place of elm".
  The following table details the origins of the commune name and other names in the commune.
  Sources:
  Orpustan: Jean-Baptiste Orpustan,   New Basque Toponymy
  Raymond: Topographic Dictionary of the Department of Basses-Pyrenees, 1863, on the page numbers indicated in the table. (in French)
  Cassini1: Alçabéhéty on the Ldh/EHESS/Cassini database
  Cassini2: Sunharette on the Ldh/EHESS/Cassini database
  Origins:
  Duchesne: Duchesne collection volume CXIV
  Ohix: Contracts retained by Ohix, Notary of Soule
  Chronicles: Chronicles of Arthez-Lassalle
  Soule: Custom of Soule
caption: Saint Peter's Church and the cemetery at Alçay
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