Re: Quintanilla
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, November 21, 2001, 4:38 |
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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?
Pronunciation, varies somewhat by dialect, but one way of saying it is
[kintA'nijA]. 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?
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