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Origin of words for "beach"

• From: "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@hidden.email>
• Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 17:02:54 -0400
• Subject: Origin of words for "beach"
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Just a dumb question since I don't have my Latin dictionary . . .

Spanish "playa", French "plage", Portuguese "praia" . . . so far, so
good.  Based on these, I would predict an Italian form of "piaggia".
But I find instead "spiaggia".  Where did the s- come from?  Did the
other langs lose it or did it get added in Italian?

My real question is just this: what was the original VL word that
these derive from?

Thanks!
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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@hidden.email>

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