2007-03-04 07:23:23 · 5 answers · asked by Keif 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
Can you give some examples?
I'm looking for words of spanish origin, not english words that they don't have equivalents in the Spanish language.
2007-03-04 07:32:54 · update #1
The J with a tilda over it takes the place of the W sound in English
i.e. Juan, or Oax has the sound as well as in Oaxaca this from the natives languages in Mexico.
2007-03-04 07:41:47 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
There are no "original" words that start with W, Whisky is a word that's accepted in our corpus, though its origins it's not hispanic. The same with waffle.
I cannot think on a word that's fully hispanic with W.
2007-03-04 07:33:02 · answer #2 · answered by tavo_aRgentina 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
yes.
el wafle - waffle
la waflera - waffle iron
el wapiti - elk
el whisky, plural: los whiskys/whiskies - whiskey
el wagwam - wigwam
Words in spanish that begin with 'w' are borrowed from another language.
2007-03-04 07:28:19 · answer #3 · answered by Firefly 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well...
I know that mexicans refer to turkey as wahalote(excuse the spelling)
Puerto Ricans use the term WEPA= yo, hey, go for it, yeah, cool .
2007-03-04 07:36:49 · answer #4 · answered by InquisitiveMind 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
el western
el whisky
2007-03-04 07:29:30 · answer #5 · answered by turbo speak engine ver. 12 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋