Re: Request for help, Spanish
| From: | Eric Christopherson <raccoon@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, October 13, 1999, 1:38 |
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----- Original Message -----
From: John Cowan <cowan@...>
To: Multiple recipients of list CONLANG <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 1999 9:09 AM
Subject: Re: Request for help, Spanish
FFlores scripsit:
> Plus the Spaniards defend their <=F1>'s at all cost in every project of
> orthographic reform -- it's in their very name, you see. :)
Which they borrowed from Occitan (really: the native form would be
"espan~on".
Where did the -on come from? My Latin dictionary lists <hispaniensis>,
<hispanicus>, and <hispanus>, none of which corresponds to *espa=F1ol.