[Lexicog] feugo etymology (was: Hogar)

[Mike Maxwell]

Chaz and Helga Mortensen wrote:
> Rudy, I had not realized that there was a connection between "hogar"
> and 'fireplace' because few if any homes of Spanish speakers have them
> anymore (at least where I have been). But there are also words like
> "fogata", which is a large, organized campfire at, say, a church
> retreat, "fogon", which is a cooking fire, "hoguera", a bonfire, etc.

There must be a interesting etymology here--the Latin /f/ developed into
/h/ in Spanish in the position # __ V (e.g. hierro 'iron' < Latin
ferrum; but not #__ue, presumably because the letter 'u' here is really
a glide /w/).  I was under the impression that Spanish words which were
derived from Latin but which had /f/ were later borrowings (like the
proper name 'Fierro').

Spanish fuego falls under the exception to the sound change, since the
etymological /f/ comes before 'ue' (= /we/, at least in modern Spanish;
presumably the o: -> we sound change happened before the f -> h sound
change).

But what about fogota and fogon: are they later borrowings?  Or was
there another exception to the f > h sound change?  Or are these words
borrowed from other languages (like Spanish filosofia < Greek
philosophia--or was this a later borrowing by way of learned Latin, too?).
--
	Mike Maxwell
	Linguistic Data Consortium
	maxwell at ldc.upenn.edu

	"When I get a little money I buy books;
           and if any is left I buy food and clothes."
	--Erasmus


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