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--- 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"). :) Four languages -- don't forget the concept (if not the actual word) of these sausages being called "dogs" is American/English! Anyway, when you mentioned "superperro", I looked em up and found a packet of Zenú branded hotdogs. Also the fast food restaurant. >Cheers, >Carl Padraic