Re: almendra: Arabic root of Spanish word

mb wrote:

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I can: a simple assimilation. gd is still a common combination in
Modern Greek, so probably was back then, but it doesn't "feel right"
in Romance languages, so people tended to mold into the patterns
familiar to them?
So [migd] became [mind] became [mend].
If -gg- is -ng-, can't -gd- have been -nd- is some dialect?

Just idle speculation: Looks rather like a change that may have been
triggered by the earlier assimilation of the "ala" of amygdala to an
unrelated "-ula", then regressive assimilation of the -y to -a, like
amagdula, then amandula.

If the portuguese form is regular, it derives from an *a'mindula (all vowels short).

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