Re: Valentine's Day Translations
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, February 21, 1999, 6:05 |
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Andrew Smith wrote:
> On another topic I seem to remember Berlitz in one of his books on
> language mentioning that Spanish ojala was derived from Arabic Wa Allah (O
> God!)
That doesn't seem very likely. If that were so, one would expect it to
be _huala'_ or _guala'_, not _ojala'_. Where would the _j_ come from?
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