Re[2]: [tied] Water, pre/postpositions, somewhat OT

At 4:44:04 AM on Monday, June 14, 2004, tgpedersen wrote:

> Löpelmann lists the following placenames in Iberian, not
> Basque, territory as evidence that <etxe> "house" was used
> there:

> Chaorna
> Irnecha (Soria)
> Exenaga ( ->> Saneja in Cerdaña)
> Exeria ( ->> Jerica in Catellón)
> Exaresa ( ->> Jaresa in Valencia)

> How would you account for those names?

<Jerica> has been explained as Arabic, 'la falda oriental
del monte'. <Jeresa> in Valencia has been identified as
probably or certainly Arabic but of unknown meaning. (M.
Asín Palacios, Contribución a la toponimia árabe de España,
1940.)

Brian