[Sca-cooks] Mantequilla and Manteca

[Elise Fleming]

Greetings.  I've sent a post to a Spanish resource center at Ohio State
University to ask about the entymology of mantequilla.  As I was typing, I
got to thinking that if one adds the "illa" ending to "manteca", one ends
up with "mantequilla".  (The C has to change to a Q to retain the hard
sound.)  "-illa" is one of the suffixes used to change a word (manta -
blanket to mantilla - lace headcovering in Seville)  I'll let you all know
if I hear back from the department.

Alys Katharine

Elise Fleming
alysk at ix.netcom.com
http://home.netcom.com/~alysk/