Comments on: Spanish Loan Words

By: venqax

venqax — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 21:56:07 +0000

Expulsed?

By: Ely

Ely — Mon, 23 May 2011 17:38:09 +0000

@michael:

Because there has always been a bustling Hebrew community in Spain (well, not always but for most of the Middle ages) and the language lacked a word for it.

It eventually degenerated into the word “sábado”.

Spanish Jews were so many, that not only do the have their own cultural group (the Sephardites) but, as they were the money lenders when they got expulsed from Spain in 1492, Spain was plunged in an economic crisis! (thankfully, for Spain, the Americas’ discovery immediately followed this.)

By: michael

michael — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 01:50:07 +0000

why did spanish adopt sabado from the greek form of the hebrew shabbat

By: Richard

Richard — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 11:57:50 +0000

I don’t accept the idea that the English language is a thief because it is a collection of words from other languages. I think you find almost every language is thus! Spanish is a romance language and a direct descendent from Latin, it takes the vast majority of it’s vocabulary from Latin. This is also the case for Portuguese, French, Italian, Romanian etc. Latin took heavily from Greek. It just isn’t right to describe any language as being a thief, all languages have their roots and derivations, it’s the way language evolves and changes.

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