Alias:
aya
- Nanny (in charge of the domestic education of a child).
- Governess (lady appointed as educator of a child). [João1, ch. 57: 7 ??]
- Personal companion (attending to a lady of high birth, as in the case of Beatriz Gonçalves 'aia' to Queen Philippa). [João2, ch. 129]
- Lady-in-wating (attending to royalty).
- Bibl: Fátima Regina Fernandes ‘As Potencialidades da Função de Aia na Baixa Idade Médi Portuguesa’, Estudos de História de España, vol 7 (Buenos Aires: Universidade Catolica Argentina, 2005), pp. 77-96, 78.
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