[Fictionary] hobday results!

[Pierre Abbat]

On Wednesday, October 22, 2014 07:49:43 Fran Poodry wrote:
> hobday - n.  1. A group of forced laborers in medieval Spain. 2. The system
> of forced labor in medieval Spain.
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> (Pierre)
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> 2, David Van Stone
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> 1, Linda
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> 1, correct guess
> 
> “I call shenanigans on the definition ‘in Spain’ since it is in no way a
> word close to Spanish, medieval or otherwise”, Ellen

It's from the Arabic cognate of Hebrew עבד, with a suffix.

> “Is it ‘hobday is’ or ‘hobday are’?”, Nick

El hobday es, los hobdayes son.

> “Doesn't really sound Spanish to me…”, Jim
> 
> “Spanish, with a b-d cluster in the middle?  Molybdenum, maybe, but ...
> hobday?”, Elliott

There are several words with "bd", such as "abducción".

Pierre
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