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Help[Facts] Cortez
I found this name when I was browsing through the top 1000 names in U.S.A 2003 and really liked it. Could you give me some info on it.
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Cortés is a Spanish surname that comes from the word cortés, which is Spanish for courteous. Cortez is obviously a variant of this surname, but I don't have any info on how it came to be, handy, sorry. Perhaps someone can help you out at http://surnames.behindthename.com/
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From Cort¨¦s to Cortez
In American Spanish there is a linguistic phenomenon called "seseo" (to pronounce Z and C+E/C+I like S). This coincidence of sounds causes some typos, logically.
In the case of the surnames, there are a lot of Spanish surnames ended in -ez, "son of" (Hern¨¢ndez, Fern¨¢ndez, Gonz¨¢lez), but the word is always accented on the penyltimate syllable.
In a "seseant" context, some surnames ended in -es (Cort¨¦s, for example) altered their spelling to -ez (for the influence of the -ez surnames): same pronunciation (Cort¨¦s/Cortez), spelling like other surnames.
But, when Cortez is pronounced in Spain (not in "seseant" dialects), the pronounce is [kor'te¦È], not [kor'tes] (Cort¨¦s).
In American Spanish there is a linguistic phenomenon called "seseo" (to pronounce Z and C+E/C+I like S). This coincidence of sounds causes some typos, logically.
In the case of the surnames, there are a lot of Spanish surnames ended in -ez, "son of" (Hern¨¢ndez, Fern¨¢ndez, Gonz¨¢lez), but the word is always accented on the penyltimate syllable.
In a "seseant" context, some surnames ended in -es (Cort¨¦s, for example) altered their spelling to -ez (for the influence of the -ez surnames): same pronunciation (Cort¨¦s/Cortez), spelling like other surnames.
But, when Cortez is pronounced in Spain (not in "seseant" dialects), the pronounce is [kor'te¦È], not [kor'tes] (Cort¨¦s).
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Problem with marks
The ¨¢ is an A with written stress.
The ¨¦ is an E with written stress.
And ¦È is the phonetic transcription symbol of the sound TH (things).
(I saw the problem with the marks after to post the message, sorry.)
The ¨¢ is an A with written stress.
The ¨¦ is an E with written stress.
And ¦È is the phonetic transcription symbol of the sound TH (things).
(I saw the problem with the marks after to post the message, sorry.)
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