Talk:Javier (name)

message: Portuguese kept the pronunciation of "x" as the English "sh". Therefore, in Portuguese the name is still spelled Xavier and maintains the original "sh" pronunciation.
People unfamiliar with the form Xavier, when faced with reading it, have sometimes resorted to pronouncing it "ex-avier", though one would have expected its pronunciation as one would pronounce the word "xylophone" to have offered a more reasonable solution. This has resulted in some popular fictional Xaviers getting saddled with the "Ex-avier" pronunciation, as with Charles Xavier, leader of the fictional X-Men.
Compare with the evolution of the placename Ilunberri to Lumbier.
—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 88.23.179.73 (talk) 15:12, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: I think this is irrelevant in Javier,

message: Is the evolution a Castilian one or a Navarrese Romance one.
It seems French-influenced.
--Error 23:20, 17 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Navarrese Romance

message: Enlightened Latin men, bright, and usually good leaders.
—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Spicy puerto rican (talk • contribs) 23:45, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Javier is a name for...

message: There is a fantastic R&B artist named Javier, who even has an album titled "Javier". I am amazed that with the wealth of knowledge Wikipedia has, Javier is nowhere at all to be found.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.132.18.146 (talk) 23:52, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Musician 

message: javie is one of the all time greates rapper who is still living. he started his carer in 1989 and was tilted with the lox and now the lox is called d-block. javie was mentored by the notorious B.I.G and tupac shquar. throught the years he met jadakiss styles p and sheek louch fomer memeber j-hood was not yet active yet.in the year 2003 javie was charged with attemped of murder and was acussed of the shooting of 50 cent. javie was then seteced to prison in 2004 for 2 years then jadkiss bailed him out.javie grew up in pemberton new jersey and sufferd hard times in the gettoh and he went through the struggle simillar to biggie smaals and tupacs struggle.javie droped out of high school when he was 17yrs old and then got kicked out of his parents house left for nothing with no money and no food so the only option was to rap and hustle selling crack and majauana.javie was caught with 12 dozen crack cokain bags and was sectenced 4 another 1 year in prison. when javie was relesed from jail he then stoped huslein and started freestylein on the street. when the word got out that javie was a good rapper another rapper named anormly wanted to freestyle. whenjavie freestyled he amazingly beat anormly and impressed biggie smalls thats when he started his rap carer.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.142.81.129 (talk) 00:21, 21 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  javie  

message: The article says "... etxaberri (etxe berri in standard spelling ...". I think it should be clarified that in Basque etxaberri and etxe berri are not alternate spellings of the same linguistic construct. Etxaberri is a compound word of etxe "house" + berri "new" (i.e., "newhouse"), whereas etxe berri is simply a nominal phrase with a qualifying adjective (i.e., "new house"). Compare English "blackbird" vs. "black bird". Basque phonology formerly caused an -e or -o at the end of a morpheme to merge with -a when compounding (thus, for example, otsail "February", from otso "wolf" + hil "month", i.e. "the month of wolves"; lorail [a dialectal word for] "May", from lore "flower", i.e. "the month of flowers"; emakume "woman" [originally, "girl"], from eme "female" + kume "offspring"; etc.). So the middle -a in etxaberri is not some kind of whimsical spelling variant, but the remnant of a former morphophonological process, which at the same time signals it as a compound word rather than a nominal phrase. 213.37.6.101 (talk) 00:43, 5 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Etxaberri vs. etxe berri

message: : The original place name went through a Romance phonetic change in Navarro-Aragonese, a Romance language spoken in the neighbouring Romanzado (cf. Leire) from the Early Middle Ages.
What does "cf. Leire" mean?  Is Leire a writer, a dialect, an example, a synonym? —Tamfang (talk) 00:41, 25 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Leire