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>Colin Halverson wrote:
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>> Quintanilla, its a Spanish word. What does it mean and how do you
>> say it?
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>Pronunciation, varies somewhat by dialect, but one way of saying it is
>[kintA'nijA].
Yup - though I'd probably have [kinta"nij\a] (with palatal fricative instead
of /j/).
>It's the diminutive of _quintana_, which my dictionary
>doesn't have, but it's probably a derivative of _quinta_ "country house,
>villa" (among a few other meanings), so "little country house", maybe?
diccionarios.com defines {quintana}:
1 f. Quinta (casa).
2 Calle transversal del campamento romano, donde tenía lugar el mercado.
3 Logr. Cauce de agua dentro de una heredad.
*Muke!