From: stlatos
Message: 70405
Date: 2012-11-04
>You are unworthy of my time. If you truly possess human intelligence, use it. An environmental change before y has nothing to do with anything I said.
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "stlatos" <sean@> wrote:
> > I'm questioning supposed Latin s > Sp z , not > Basque. The point I'm making is that it should be, from ALL evidence, a Basque word to begin with.
> >
> The Vasco-Spanish surname Elizondo transparently means 'vicinity of a church' and <el(e)iza> 'church' comes from Latin <eccle:sia>, so I do not see how your argument holds any water. Basque -z- resulting from Latin/Romance -s- certainly can be retained as -z- in Spanish.
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> DGK
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