Aýna, Spain

Aýna
Aýna
Municipality
	Coat of arms
	location in Albacete
Country	Spain
Autonomous community	Castilla–La Mancha
Province	Albacete
Comarca	Sierra del Segura
Judicial district	Hellín
Demonym	Aýniegos
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	02125
Website	Official website

Aýna^[1] (Spanish pronunciation: [aˈina]) is a small village and municipality in the southern region of the province of Albacete, in the Spanish autonomous community of Castile-La Mancha. It is a popular summer vacation destination due to its pleasant scenery and climate. It has a population of over 900 inhabitants, which has declined between 1950 and 2000. Aýna is referred to as "Manchegan Switzerland" due to its location between two mountain ranges.

Name

The name of Aýna is derived from the Arabic ‏عَيْن‎ (ʕayn) meaning 'spring' or 'source'.^[1] The spelling of the town preserves an archaic^[2] use of the letter ⟨y⟩, which was common in Old Castilian. Although the historic spelling used the letter ⟨y⟩,^[1] the modern spelling contains an accent to indicate the ⟨a⟩ and ⟨ý⟩ belong to different syllables rather than forming a diphthong.^[3]^[1]^[4] The spelling is notable for having one of the only Spanish language use of the character ⟨ý⟩.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "Aýna, un pueblo con acento" [Aýna, a village with an accent]. La Tribuna de Albacete (in Spanish). 13 January 2011. Archived from the original on 27 February 2017. Retrieved 2 August 2017.
^ RAE (2010:645)
^ RAE (2010:235)
^ @RAEinforma (October 23, 2019). "¿La «y» se tilda en algún caso?" [Can the letter "y" ever have an accent?] (Tweet) – via Twitter.

Bibliography

Ortografía de la lengua española [Orthography of the Spanish language] (in Spanish). Real Academia Española. 2010. p. 235. ISBN 9788467047868. OCLC 757621776.