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Re: [romconlang] Origin of words for "beach"

Mark J. Reed skrev:

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!


Meyer-Lübke says it's from Proto-Romance _plagius_,
'side, coast', which in turn is from Greek.  He
mentions but doesn't explain the Italian s-,
but such an s- is normally from ex- or dis-.
Apparently there is also an Italian _piaggia_
meaning 'side' found in some set expressions,
which I can't understand the German translation of.


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