Re: Droppin' D's Revisited
| From: | Barry Garcia <barry_garcia@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, November 23, 2000, 17:44 |
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CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU writes:
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>> Hmm, I like <-(i)ac>. I wonder if it has any relation to Spanish
>> <-ez>/<-iz>/<-az> (as in Rodríguez, Ruiz, and Díaz)?
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>Well, I have no idea. Has Spanish been influenced by Celtic languages
>anyway?
>And by Germanic languages? Directly or from French influence?
A book on old Spanish I have says that the spanish endings of -ez, -oz,
etc. may come from the germanic of the Visigoths.