ERIC Number: EJ119548
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Publication Date: 1975
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Que vaina! (What a Bother!)
Llorens, Washington
Yelmo, 23, 42-43, Apr-May 75
An essay on the Spanish word "vaina," which originally meant "sheath,""scabbard,""pod" or "husk," but which in several Latin American countries now translates as "nuisance," or "bother." (Text is in Spanish.) (CK)
Descriptors: Componential Analysis, Diachronic Linguistics, Etymology, Language Usage, Semantics, Spanish, Vocabulary
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