The Spanish-internal proposal compares garment poncho with a faded or discolored adjective in the pocho / poncho family; the exact formation and chronology remain debated.
CANONICAL RELATIONSHIP RECORD
COVERAGE LEDGER ↗EDGE / 0362competing derivationproposed
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A relationship—not a generated explanation. Both endpoints, every editorial field, every citation, and every dossier reuse are preserved below.
poncho
poncho; sleeveless blanket-like garment
OPEN NODE 388 ↗DESCENDS FROM→
PARENT / EARLIER FORM / attestedSpanish · historical Spanish candidate · faded adjective candidatepocho / poncho
faded, discolored; proposed source family for the garment word
OPEN NODE 391 ↗01
THE COMPLETE RELATIONSHIP
EVERY FIELD, NOT A FAIRY TALE
A color or condition adjective is proposed to have become the name of a plain or faded garment.
A 1530 Spanish-language garment record is central to the argument.
RAE editors · Fernando Iwasaki reviewing Morínigo and Coromines
proposed — The early Spanish record challenges a one-way Mapuche derivation, but the competing analysis is not treated as closed.
reviewed
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CITATION REGISTER
SOURCES ON THIS EDGE
Poncho — Word HistoryWord History — from Mapuche
challengesAUDIT SOURCE ↗ORIGINAL ↗Documents the competing Mapuche analysis.
Poncho — Diccionario de la lengua españolaponcho¹ — quizá de po[n]cho “descolorido”
supportsAUDIT SOURCE ↗ORIGINAL ↗States the current Spanish-internal proposal.
La universalidad del español: encuentros y contactos lingüísticosponcho discussion — 1530 record and Spanish-origin argument
supportsAUDIT SOURCE ↗ORIGINAL ↗Documents the historical argument for Spanish origin.
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EDITORIAL REUSE