Re: Ligurian

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@...> wrote:

>
> Let me risk foot-in-mouth-itis by suggesting a very long shot relationship for *pala
> If *pala means "grave",
> then potentially it could be related to Spanish pala "shovel --i.e. digging tool" from Latin pala. 
>

Actually, it's pa:la, with a long first vowel.

> I'm thinking along the analogy of English grave and German graben "to dig."
> Now, I don't know the origin or any other meaning for Latin pala but I'm sure one of you does.
>

The Latin word is related to the verb pango: 'to drive in the earth'.

> BTW: Bardo is Aragonese, but it's also regional Spanish according to the DRAE et al.
>

This is because Spanish has replaced Aragonese to a large extent, so the regional Spanish spoken there has lots of Aragonese loanwords.