Re: Push

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Arnaud Fournet" <fournet.arnaud@...>
wrote:

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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Joao S. Lopes
> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 5:37 PM
> Subject: Res: [tied] Re: Push
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> to pull = puxar
> to push = empurrar
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> Funny !
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> What is the origin of these words ?
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> A.
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Is it possible that Portuguese <empurrar> "to push" is a borrowing of
Spanish <empujar> "to push"? I think that in either Brazilian or
Portugal Portuguese, or perhaps in both, <rr> is pronounced /x/, so
<empurrar> would sound almost the same as Spanish <empujar>. But if
that is true only of Brazilian Portuguese, then there must be some
other origin of <empurrar>.

Andrew