Re: [tied] Santiago and James

--- 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.
>
> Brian

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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?
Dan