Re[2]: [tied] Santiago and James

From: Brian M. Scott
Message: 31874
Date: 2004-04-12

At 2:28:26 PM on Monday, April 12, 2004, Daniel J. Milton
wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott"
> <BMScott@...> wrote:

>> At 10:56:29 on Monday, 12 April 2004, Pere wrote:

>> > Sanctus Jacobus had in latin a dialectal variant, Sanctus
>> > *Jacomus, so we have Giacomo in Italian. In the East of
>> > the Iberic Penninsula we find Jacme. The "c" became a
>> > vowel in Aragon dialect Jaime and Catalan Jaume. In the
>> > West of Iberic Penninsula the *Jacomu> Yago or Yagüe. Then
>> > the fame of Santiago de Compostela was extended all along
>> > the Penninsula and the names Yago and Yagüe became rare.
>> > We can find also Diego, from a false word ending of
>> > Sant-Yago>San-Tiago.

>> I have always found the derivation of <Diego> from <Didacus>
>> via <Didago> and <Diago> more convincing; it seems to fit
>> the evidence better.

> I believe the Spanish theologian Diego Estella was Didacus
> Stella in Latin. (There's a wonderful book by Robert
> Merton "On the Shoulders of Giants" tracing the phrase "
> Pigmies standing OTSOG see farther" back to him and
> beyond.)

> But aren't Didacus and Jacobus independent names, although
> either can yield Diego in Spanish?

They are independent names. What I question is whether
<Diego> actually can derive from <Jacobus> at all, or at
least whether this source plays any significant role.

Brian