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Re: [romconlang] About "dejar"



Daniel Bengoa wrote:

> According to Royal Spanish Academy , Dejar derives from old "lejar" , from
latin laxare    (whence ITALIAN lasciare , FRENCH laisser PORTUGUESE &
CATALAN deixar...)
>
> Beginning with de- perhaps influenced by "dar" but catalan dictionaries
(deixar) say that beginning with de- influenced by the preposition "de".

Ralph Penny in his "History of the Spanish Language" suggests that
deixar/dejar are from Lat *DAXARE, a dialectal (Sabellian) form or more
archaic form of LAXARE (initial d/l variations in Latin are not unknown:
lacrima < PIE *dakru), only preserved in Hispanic Latin. FWIW, Hispanic
Latin has a wealth of more archaic forms, to pick two at random: quaerare
and cova.

Dan (Jones)