Language doesn’t come up from planned academic consensus, it comes from common use. If there were more people using the Spanish then French word negro because that’s the cultural environment these people came from and where they used it, and the accent gradually changed the word to something more unique, then that’s what the new word is. Wikipedia says that process took 200 years. They ended with that word and not another word because they were not using that other word before, simple as.
It just kind of seems wierd out of all the word to choose out of Latin they chose this. Like why didn’t they pick something like Peddico?
Language doesn’t come up from planned academic consensus, it comes from common use. If there were more people using the Spanish then French word negro because that’s the cultural environment these people came from and where they used it, and the accent gradually changed the word to something more unique, then that’s what the new word is. Wikipedia says that process took 200 years. They ended with that word and not another word because they were not using that other word before, simple as.
just say it outloud, “let’s lynch some peddico’s”…sounds ridiculous. would never catch on
English history is full of “that foreign word sounds sexy so let’s make a version of it”