Re:The Almost Romance Languages
by jefftk on Thursday June 22, 2023 @11:40AM
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Several of the words you list are also English words: guitar, algebra, elixir, tamarind, cafe, orange, arsenal, alcohol. When talking about English origins do we count those for Spanish or Arabic? ;)
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Re:The Almost Romance Languages
by imagainstit on Thursday June 22, 2023 @02:51PM
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Only guitar in that list comes to English from a Spanish etymology, the others come from Arabic via medieval Latin, French and Italian, not Spanish.