Arabic-L:LING:ojal á

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Date: 05 Aug 2009
From:Antonio Giménez [huesteantigua at yahoo.es]
Subject:ojalá

/ʃ/ > /x/ (or ش > خ in their Arabic equivalents) is a very well known
development that took place in Spanish some time in the 17th century. I
think nowadays لو شاء الله is widely considered to be the most  
likely
etymon of 'ojalá' (see Federico Corriente, /A Dictionary of Andalusi
Arabic/, 1997, p. 296, for an example of this لو شاء الله in  
Ibn Quzman).

-- 
Antonio Giménez
huesteantigua at yahoo.es


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