[Buddha-l] Re: Albuquerque

[Zelders.YH]

Richard Hayes wrote :

>The second question is complicated by the fact that an 'r' somehow got
>dropped overboard between Spain and New Mexico. The Spanish place after
>which the New Mexican town is named is spelled Alburquerque. That place,
>and therefore the New Mexican town almost named after it, has two
>etymologies. Some say it comes from the Latin name for a species of
>tree, and other says it is the corruption of an Arabic phrase.
>Naturally, I prefer the latter nirukti, but I have no reason whatsoever
>for doing so, except that I like Arabs more than Romans. (We populists
>always cheer on the underdogs, which may be why we become Buddhists.)

Well, there is Alfonso de Albuquerque (1453-1515), Portuguese navigator and 
founder of the Portuguese trade empire in Asia. I have never seen that name 
spelled with an 'r'.

Salaam
Herman Zelders

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