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From: Eric Christopherson <rakko@hidden.email> Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2002 21:46:22 -0500 On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 09:38:46AM +0000, Adam Walker wrote: > >From: "Barry Garcia" <barry_garcia@hidden.email> > >- aguacate - avocado > > This one will be a Spanish loan. avogadu, abagadi, avgadi or some such. <aguacate> IS the Spanish word. I'm not sure where we got <avocado> from. (It certainly sounds Spanish... maybe it's an older form that was supplanted?) -- Eric Christopherson, a.k.a. Contrarian Conlanger Rakko ^_^
And my forms are derived from aguacate. They just happen to look like avocado. But not that I think of it, this would be a pretty later loan so the gu>b with intervocalic b>v rules might not apply. So depending on when this rule goes inactive and when this word is borrowed it *could* end up as aguagadi. I need to see when the Spaniards frist started improting the things to the old world.
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