(01-10-2017, 08:11 PM)voynichbombe wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.<probablyhasbeennotedbeforedisclaimer />
funny thing with the corpus regex (ace, btw. thx). google translate (yes, again), thinks the chol example is welsh. welsh dictionary tells me "from her lap", old english welsh thesaurus tells me chol comes from arab. "chalel", "to expect" (I expect it means expecting a child).
I don't know about Wales, it was less accessible and not as cosmopolitan as the London area, but Saracen craftsmen were already working in England in the 13th century. Whether there were enough of them to influence the language, I don't know, it doesn't seem highly likely, but maybe the English knights who spent a few years in the Jerusalem area during the Crusades brought back bits and pieces of the language with them.
Most people know what the word "simba" means (Swahili for "lion") and I've even come across the word in old manuscripts (I can't remember exactly how old), so the use of the word in European culture predates the Tarzan movies by a few centuries.