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Deiniol Jones wrote:
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.
Yes, that's more what I remember reading. I decided I wanted to collect up some of the archaisms in Ibero-Romance and generalize them back to my alt-Latin Qurese ancestor. I think I settled on "dakruma", for example, in my little file of vocabulary I've been collecting ....
Cheers, Carl -- Carl Edlund Anderson http://www.carlaz.com/