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mezquita

Usually claimed as being from Arabic مَسْجِد (masjid, “mosque”), which is however phonologically difficult, so Al-Jallad (2017) suggests that it is a better match for Aramaic 𐡌𐡎𐡂𐡃𐡀 (msgdʾ /⁠masgəḏā⁠/, “the mosque”), which he also posits as the source of Byzantine Greek μασγίδα (masgída) and Tashelhit timzgida, which would have been borrowed directly due to closer contact of Romance speakers w

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c. 650 BCEAramaic

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