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On 03 Dec 2010, at 12:12 , Padraic Brown wrote: > --- On Fri, 12/3/10, Carl Edlund Anderson <cea@hidden.email> wrote: > >> Equally, if I go to the supermarket, I will find packets of oversized >> hotdogs labelled "Superperros". :) > > Zenú brand? Quite possibly -- I would have to check to be sure! Though ... if so, the identification of this food item involves three different language families. The brand name Zenú derives from the name of a native American group in northern Colombia (also "Sinú"; the language is, alas, long extinct, though the name presumably derives from some native language, if not necessarily that of the Zenú/Sinú themselves own), "perro" is borrowed into Spanish from Basque, I believe, and "super" is of course a re-borrowing from Latin (alongside inherited form "sobre"). :) Cheers, Carl -- Carl Edlund Anderson http://www.carlaz.com/