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Diccionario Escolar Etimologico

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This book is not a scholar's tool, and this review awards one star because Amazon does not give you the choice of awarding none. A dictionary with the word "etimológico" in its title ought to give the history of a word, especially if the word's source or root is a word from a different language, yet this book does that for only a very few words. The rare 1% (my humble estimate) of words that are graced with an asterisk have a footnote dedicated to them, and the footnotes are very chatty and uninformative. For example, the word "queso" is of Germanic origin, but there appears nothing more than "food made from milk"! The other 99% of words have nothing more than definitions without any mention of their foreign root. For the many words with Arabic roots, there is mostly no mention of their origin. In its defense, I must say that the book does have five pages of computer terms or "informática", and it does attribute some of them to English. Burning your dollar bills is preferable to wasting them on this book.

Mmm , the origin of spanish word "queso" ; italian càcio , portuguese queijo , spanish queso , german käse derives from latin "Caseum"

caseum > queso

baseum > beso

queso is not germanic (as commonly supposed)

DENTRO DE 5 DÍAS i give to you more exemples why queso is not germanic

proverbio griego

madre mia cuanto tontolava hay en la red dios mio incultos , burros...