Re: Spaß...spasso (was Re: German orthography: long/short vowels)
| From: | Martin Hinsch <martin@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, October 14, 2001, 13:00 |
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On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 12:11:33PM -0000, D Tse wrote:
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> spasso is apparently derived from spassare, meaning v.tr. to enjoy,
> v.refl. to enjoy oneself, which is derived from Latin expassare, the
> past participle of expandere, which means to expand, extend.
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> Perchance the German has been borrowed from the Romance?
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It's indeed a borrowing from Italian (occuring around 1600), at least my lexicon says
so.
Martin Hinsch
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