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From: "Douglas G. Wilson" <douglas at nb.net>
Subject: LL-L "Etymology" 2007.07.18 (02) [E/German]

> > Ron used the word 'maskee' as in 'Maskee you likie' the other day ....

But I suppose the default hypothesis must be that "maskee" is from
Portuguese (or Spanish) "mas que"?

At least the hypothesis seems superficially plausible ... and
venerable ... e.g.:

http://www.meirapenna.org/publicacoes/conf/2005/tres_visitas_a_xanghai.htm

http://www.fask.uni-mainz.de/inst/iaa/anglophonie/second/black.htm

http://dsal.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/philologic/getobject.pl?c.1:1:510.hobson

http://books.google.com/books?id=bpsAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA144&dq=maskee+%22mas+que%22

http://books.google.com/books?id=3qk-p5hKuccC&pg=PA495&ots=PtWZrb0MJA&dq=maskee+%22mas+que%22&sig=XRhnFRiUNvgXo342BGF_vY1_d30

-- Doug Wilson

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