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It is unclear whether ''jainko'' is derived from ''Jaungoikoa'' or the other way round. It has been suggested that Christian missionaries created "''Jaungoikoa''" as a Folk Etymology ("The Lord of above") for ''jainko''. In modern Basque, the grammatical form would be ''goiko jauna''. Current usage has "Jaungoikoa" for the Christian God and "jainko" for generic God s. It has been suggested that Basque ''Jainko'' through Gascon is the origin of the English phrase "By Jingo !". The guide of the Way Of Saint James included in the '' Codex Callixtinus '' by the medieval pilgrim Aymericus Picaudus mentions that the Basque word for "God" was '' Urcia '', the old word for "sky". '' Jaungoikoa Eta Lege-zaharra '' ("God and Old Law ") is the motto of the Basque nationalistic Christian party EAJ-PNV . |