Re: Same name (was Re: Brithenig-heads)
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, April 10, 2000, 20:21 |
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At 12:49 10.4.2000 -0400, Steg Belsky wrote:
>called ISPAMJA [iSpamja], based on the Aramaic name _ispamya_ from Latin
>Hispania (sp?), and no, i have no idea how the /n/ became an /m/. :-)
Sincemostly Latin _mj_ > _ñ_ in Romance, it is probably a hyper-correction.
So what would "spammer" be in Judean? ;-)
/BP
B.Philip Jonsson <mailto:bpj@...>bpj@netg.se
<mailto:melroch@...>melroch@my-deja.com
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