Perhaps OT, Bernard, but most instructive and interesting. Now I
must look up "occitan".
Chris
On 13 Dec 2007, at 14:54, Bernard Frangoulis wrote:
> "Val" does mean "valley" in French, but it is an old term, only used
> nowadays in some palce names. The current term is "vallée".
>
> It's "val" in galician and in occitan and "vall" in catalan.
>
> I find in Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valparaíso ) that:
> Spanish explorers arrived in 1536, [...] under the command of Juan
> de Saavedra, who named the town after his native village of
> Valparaíso de Arriba in Cuenca, Spain.
>
> and also (http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valparaíso):
> posiblemente su nombre a una abreviación de "Va al Paraíso de
> Arriba" o "Valle Paraíso de Arriba", ya que a pocos kilómetros de
> ahí valle abajo, se encuentra otro pueblo llamado "Valparaíso de
> Abajo", con similar acepción
>
> Now how OT is all this .-) (and how disconencted from the title of
> this post)
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