Quilotoa@lemmy.ca to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 11 days agoWhy, in Spanish, is saint sometimes San and sometimes Santa for naming cities?message-squaremessage-square20linkfedilinkarrow-up181arrow-down11
arrow-up180arrow-down1message-squareWhy, in Spanish, is saint sometimes San and sometimes Santa for naming cities?Quilotoa@lemmy.ca to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 11 days agomessage-square20linkfedilink
minus-squarequediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up37·10 days 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-up2·10 days 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