Quilotoa@lemmy.ca to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 2 months agoWhy, in Spanish, is saint sometimes San and sometimes Santa for naming cities?message-squaremessage-square17fedilinkarrow-up176arrow-down11
arrow-up175arrow-down1message-squareWhy, in Spanish, is saint sometimes San and sometimes Santa for naming cities?Quilotoa@lemmy.ca to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 2 months agomessage-square17fedilink
minus-squarequediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up34·2 months agoSan is the apocope of santo (masculine form of saint), all masculine names use the form San except those that start with the syllables to- or do-.
minus-squareanomnom@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoSee? English isn’t the only language with semi-arbitrarily pointless rules
San is the apocope of santo (masculine form of saint), all masculine names use the form San except those that start with the syllables to- or do-.
See? English isn’t the only language with semi-arbitrarily pointless rules