Re: USAGE: Cool idioms (was Re: Bibliography)

Carlos Thompson <chlewey@...> wrote:
>
> FFlores wrote:
>
> > The only one I can think of here is Ushuaia /u'swaia/ (it's
> > the southernmost city on Earth). I don't have a clue why it's
> > spelled like that, totally un-Spanish
> >
> Deshacer, deshielo, deshidratado, deshonor, trashumante...
> The <h> is just the Spanish mute <h> as in this compunds, I guess.
Yes, it is, but all the words you mention are derived,
a prefix des-, tras- plus a root. Us-huaia is maybe a
similar compound, but not in Spanish. It's unanalyzable.

(Though _trashumante_ is too. Where does -hum- come from?)


--Pablo Flores

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