Re[2]: [tied] Santiago and James

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.

Brian