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Latest comment: 9 years ago by Diligent

there are two different words for the Spanish

bird < arabic

plant < metathesis of alcartaz "roll of paper".

see Diccionario de la lengua española alcatraz”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

I'd do it but not sure how. --Diligent (talk) 16:07, 26 August 2015 (UTC)Reply