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We are in the pumpkin season!
The diversity in Spanish vocabulary & its historical language contact. For example, during Arab rule in the Iberian Peninsula, Spanish borrowed words like “calabaza” from Arabic, which had Persian origins. In South America, Spanish adopted words from indigenous languages like “sapallu” (Quechua) or ayohtli (Nahuatl) or auyamá (Taino).
https://mapologies.com/el-atlas/
#pumking #calabaza #zapallo #fruit #ayote #veggies #language #etymolgy #etymologymap #spanish #español
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Ooh exciting! I'm hitting that critical mass where two lovely people are talking about the same thing from wildly different viewpoints! A happy accident! Serendipity!
Here's an article on making these happen by design, which also covers making unhappy accidents happen by design, zemblanity!
This makes me happy because I've learnt new things about words and was one of the cool things about Twitter. 😀
NB follow those two!#Serendipity #Zemblanity #Etymolgy #HappyAccidents #Twitter #Mastodon