From: Eric Christopherson (rakko@charter.net)
Date: Tue Jun 04 2002 - 12:46:22 EST
On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 09:38:46AM +0000, Adam Walker wrote:
> >From: "Barry Garcia" <barry_garcia@csumb.edu>
> >- aguacate - avocado
>
> This one will be a Spanish loan. avogadu, abagadi, avgadi or some such.
<aguacate> IS the Spanish word. I'm not sure where we got <avocado> from.
(It certainly sounds Spanish... maybe it's an older form that was
supplanted?)
-- Eric Christopherson, a.k.a. Contrarian Conlanger Rakko ^_^
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