Re: Same name (was Re: Brithenig-heads)

Carlos Thompson wrote:

> But my favorite is Jacob (Latin?),
Latinized form of a Hebrew name: one of the Patriarchs.

> which surfaces in Spanish as Jacobo,
> Diego, Santiago and Jaime.  All forms are very common, and pretty old.
Actually the mapping Diego <-> Jacob, though long believed in, is pretty
shaky etymologically.  Diego may have been a local Iberian name that
was pulled into the Jacob orbit under the influence of Iago, which is
clearly < Jacob.   The English form is James, which is < Iacomo, an Italian
variant of Iacobo, and presumably Jaime has the same origin.

My favorite Spanish name doublet is Hernan/German, ultimately of Germanic
origin.

My favorite Spanish borrowing is "español"; the native form would have
been "españon".

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