Basque <(h)anka>

[Eduard Selleslagh]

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From: "roslyn frank" <roz-frank at uiowa.edu>
Sent: Saturday, March 04, 2000 5:51 PM

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> If, for example, one accepts the story told by Corominas about the path
> that brought an Old Persian Wanderwort into Romance languages, one must ask
> why the cobblers didn't stop off in Germanic speaking lands first?
[snip]
> Have a good day,
> Roz

[Ed]

Persian craftsmen, architects etc. played an important role in what is now
perceived as expressions of 'Arab' or Muslim material culture. The most likely
place to find these people during the Middle Ages would be the Arab occupied
part of Spain, and nowhere else.

Ed. Selleslagh