Re: Language naming terminology

Tom Wier scripsit:

> Carlos Thompson wrote:
>
> > I know the English word for _virrey_ is Vicerois (from French) as used in
> > India.  How should I refer to the place a Vicerois rules? Viceroisdom?
>
> "viceroyalty".
Indeed, as in this example (from http://www.latinsynergy.org/argentina.html)

# The whole La Plata region was a subdivision of the viceroyalty of Peru
# and did not carry on direct trade with Spain until after 1776, when
# it was made a separate viceroyalty.

Pablo Flores scripsisset:

> 'Brasil' comes from the same root
> as 'brasa' (lit piece of coal, burnt wood reduced to carbon; what's the
> English word?).
"Charcoal" ("char" is a verb meaning to partially burn).
But there may also have been an influence from the mythical Irish
land of Hy Braseail (sp?), which was thought to lie in the Atlantic.

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        You spigotty anglease?  Nnn.  You phonio saxo?  Nnnn.
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