Arabic-L:LING:proposed etymologies of ojala and Iraq

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Date: 16 Sep 2009
From:Moulay Ali Bouanani <bouanani.idrissi at gmail.com>
Subject:proposed etymologies of ojala and Iraq

Ojala,
I have just read the explanation give as to the etymology of ojala.  
People in al-Andalus spoke their vernacular which was the Maghrebi  
form of Arabic: a 'Darija/'Ammiyya' containing much Arabic, Tamazight  
(Berber) and some early Spanish. Any person interested in the history  
of al-Andalus and its settling by the Muslims would find that the  
North Africans made a large group in that land. We don't need to look  
into what Egyptians say to figure out the meaning of 'ojala'. To this  
day in the western most parts of the Maghreb people use the word  
'waxxa' for yes and OK. I have not investigated the etymology of the  
word 'waxxa', but I am convinced it is of Amazigh origin since  
speakers of Tamazight use it meaning Yes and OK. Ojala is then: waxxa  
Allah (Allah ok's it). The syntax is not that of Arabic, of course,  
but the descendants of the Mudejars who were not allowed to speak  
Arabic, did not keep all the grammatical and syntactical rules when  
they spoke.

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