09-06-2020, 08:21 PM
Today I learned of the Spanish "word" mijitos, which I can only assume is a contraction of "mis hijitos". I think a modern translation would be something like "my sweethearts".
Writing things like this (colloquial contractions of words) as one word is not common today, but it was extremely common in the middle ages, especially when pronouns and articles were involved.
You need experience with the language and a bit of context to understand these correctly, so as we have discussed before, an unexpected contraction might make it really hard for us to read these marginalia.
Writing things like this (colloquial contractions of words) as one word is not common today, but it was extremely common in the middle ages, especially when pronouns and articles were involved.
You need experience with the language and a bit of context to understand these correctly, so as we have discussed before, an unexpected contraction might make it really hard for us to read these marginalia.