Talk:oġġezzjoni

Possible English origin?

Hi @Fenakhay!

I am to understand that your main focus now is thankfully definitions rather than nitpicking on etymologies, but unfortunately for you I also don't dislike the latter.

I've been thinking about this, and it just seems a bit weird for Maltese to borrow such a literary form. The most plausible option I could come up with, is that this is a faux Italianism, actually being borrowed from English objection. The pronunciation would have been Italianized, by analogy of other words they knew in English and Italian: object/oggetto (noun), subject/soggetto, etc.

Another point in favour of the anglicism hypothesis is oġġezzjonabbli, which perfectly matches up with English objectionable, and doesn't quite fit with Italian obiettabile.

It could also be originally an Italianism, with later English influence. What's the chronology for this form and of the -bj- and -bbj- forms?

Catonif (talk) 12:29, 16 November 2022 (UTC)

Oh, Traina gives Sicilian oggezzioni... I don't know how I didn't think of that before... Catonif (talk) 23:38, 24 November 2022 (UTC)