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Words of Germanic origin are common in all varieties of Spanish. The modern words for the cardinal directions (norte, este, sur, oeste), for example, are all taken from Germanic words (compare north, east, south and west in Modern English), after the contact with Atlantic sailors. These words did not exist in Spanish prior to the 15th century.
Although there is barely any direct inscriptional evidence of the supporting vowel in Latin inscriptions in the Balkans, [25] its development and subsequent loss is considered to be indirectly attested by the dropping of word-initial /e/ before /sC/ in cases in which it was not originally a supporting vowel, as in Romanian spulbera 'to dust ...
The phoneme /h/ (from Old Spanish initial /f/) progressively became silent in most areas, though it still exists for some words in varieties of Andalusia and Extremadura.In several modern dialects, the sound [h] is the realization of the phoneme /x/; additionally, in many dialects it exists as a result of the debuccalization of /s/ in syllabic coda (a process commonly termed aspiration in ...
In Spanish dialectology, the realization of coronal fricatives is one of the most prominent features distinguishing various dialect regions. The main three realizations are the phonemic distinction between /θ/ and /s/ (distinción), the presence of only alveolar [] (), or, less commonly, the presence of only a denti-alveolar [] that is similar to /θ/ ().
The prospective aspect was formed with the verb ir ('(to) go') along with the verb in infinitive, with the difference that Modern Spanish includes the preposition a: Al Çid beso la mano, la senna ua tomar. (Cantar de mio Cid, 691) Al Cid besó la mano, la enseña va a tomar. (Modern Spanish equivalent)
It is written in medieval Spanish, the ancestor of modern Spanish. La Celestina is a book published anonymously by Fernando de Rojas in 1499. This book is considered to be one of the greatest in Spanish literature, and traditionally marks the end of medieval literature and the beginning of the literary renaissance in Spain.
Most Spanish nouns beginning with the letters al-(from the Arabic definite article) have their origin in Arabic. [10] As to how many words in Modern Spanish are of Arabic origin, the estimates vary widely, depending largely on whether the count includes derived forms and place names.
Note: Although these inventions were created on the Iberian Peninsula, that does not mean they were not made by people of Spanish heritage due to the area being part of the Islamic Empire. Alcohol distillation; Mercuric oxide, first synthesized by Abu al-Qasim al-Qurtubi al-Majriti (10th century). Modern surgery. Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi (936 ...