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Masia is typically Sardinian, particularly widespread in the north of the island, particularly in Sassari and Alghero, but also, again in the Sassari area, in Ossi, Porto Torres, Tissi, Ittiri, Sorso and Pozzomaggiore, in Gallura in Olbia and Oschiri, and in Cagliari, Nuoro and Oristano, Maxia is instead typical of Cagliari and Cagliari, of Selargius, Quartu Sant'Elena, San Basilio and Quartucciu, with a line also in Aritzo in the Nuoro area, both should derive from the Sardinian word of Spanish origin maxia and masia (farm, farm), perhaps to identify the progenitors as those of the farm.
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