Final Theta in Spanish

[Anton Sherwood]

"David L. White" wrote, of Spanish words in -z:

> Why are these words so rare, evidently?  Should not all Latin
> 3rd declension nouns in /k/ show up with final theta in Spanish,
> if "lux" and "pax" do?  I cannot at the moment think of any more,
> but there must have been more than 2 ...

(find Spanish wordlist, http://www.vada.nl/software/files/spanish.zip)
(decompress)
(grep "z$")

...478 words including: atroz barniz (<veronix) caliz cerviz codorniz
cruz faz feliz feroz haz (<fasces) hez (<fex) hoz (<falx) nuez perdiz
pez (<piscis) ramz (<radix) sauz (<salix?) veloz vez (<vic-) voz

plus *triz, abstracts in -ez, adjectives in -az
--
Anton Sherwood  --  br0nt0 at p0b0x.com  --  http://ogre.nu/