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[kurupetos]

http://www.merriam-webster.com/spanish/cu%C3%B1ado

[Oceanside50]

What's so interesting about it

[GreekIslandGirl]

Well spotted. It must have come into Spanish via Latin from the Greek. No other explanation.

Can't find a Spanish etymological dictionary to verify, though.

(κουνιάδα)

[Gambros seems to be ancient Greek for brother-in-law.]

[kurupetos]

What's so interesting about it

Are you Cypriot?

[kurupetos]

Well spotted. It must have come into Spanish via Latin from the Greek. No other explanation.

Can't find a Spanish etymological dictionary to verify, though.

(κουνιάδα)

[Gambros seems to be ancient Greek for brother-in-law.]

It could be a remnant of the Hellenic colony of Emporion (near the city of Barcelona).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emp%C3%BAries

[Sotos]

Well spotted. It must have come into Spanish via Latin from the Greek. No other explanation.

According to wikipedia "κουνιάδος < βενετική cognado < ιταλική cognato < λατινική cognatus". So it seems that original word was Latin.

[SKI-preo]

Well spotted. It must have come into Spanish via Latin from the Greek. No other explanation.

According to wikipedia "κουνιάδος < βενετική cognado < ιταλική cognato < λατινική cognatus". So it seems that original word was Latin.

Latin cognatus= (blood relative)

[Sotos]

Well spotted. It must have come into Spanish via Latin from the Greek. No other explanation.

According to wikipedia "κουνιάδος < βενετική cognado < ιταλική cognato < λατινική cognatus". So it seems that original word was Latin.

Latin cognatus= (blood relative)

cognatus: "From cum ("with") + nātus ("born") or nāscor." Then when you check about nāscor you get "From earlier gnāscor, from Proto-Indo-European *genh₁-. Cognate with Ancient Greek γεννάω (gennaō, "to beget")." So part of the root might be Greek after all.

[Oceanside50]

What's so interesting about it

Are you Cypriot?

yeap(kato pyrgos and you?)...iglesia,piscina,verga(stick), mounika(i think more spanish slang), and many more here

http://www.slideshare.net/katerina60/gr ... in-spanish

also if you hear a pure puerto rican speaking from san juan....the way they accentuate their words sounds very much like some greek speakers on Cyprus, from my observation only

[supporttheunderdog]

I thinks its another of Gig's dinosaur remnants - derived from a common ancestor of most Indo - European languages of which Greek is one - and where in consequence without having originated in Greek there will be similarities.