Talk:alpaca
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Arabic and Peruvian together?—Strabismus 19:48, 21 February 2009 (UTC)
- That seems crazy. According to the RAE, it's from Aymara (deprecated template usage) all-paka. Ƿidsiþ 17:34, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
- I concur. I have no idea what Guralnik, et al. based that on. Unless, of course, they were assuming that all non-Latinate/-Indo-European words in Spanish beginning with "al-" have an Arabic origin. But even there it's an overgeneralization.—Strabismus 02:01, 28 February 2009 (UTC)