Talk:alpaca

alpaca
WNWD (1959) "[Sp. < Ar. al, the + Peruv. paco, animal]" Arabic and Peruvian together?—Strabismus 19:48, 21 February 2009 (UTC)
 * That seems crazy. According to the RAE, it's from Aymara undefined:.  Ƿidsiþ 17:34, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
 * I concur. I have no idea what Guralnik, et al. based that on. Unless, of course, they were assuming that all non-Latinate/-Indo-European words in Spanish beginning with "al-" have an Arabic origin. But even there it's an overgeneralization.—Strabismus 02:01, 28 February 2009 (UTC)