Old Spanish

For example, in Old Spanish several words like rapoza "fox", cán "dog", hiniestra window" and "Rovrico "Roderick" competed with zorro, perro, ventana and Rodrigo but the latter four eventually won out in Modern Spanish.

languagehat.com: NATURAL SELECTION IN LANGUAGE. 2005

Jornada del Muerto, Dead Man's Journey, it used to be called by the Old Spanish.

Stallion Gate Smith, Martin Cruz, 1942- 1986

SCENE: _The main room of an Old Spanish tavern, Segura, Spain.

The Ghost Breaker A Melodramatic Farce in Four Acts Charles Goddard 1915

Latin initial h was valueless in V.L. and usually was not written in Old Spanish (Lat. habere, O.Sp. aver, modern haber); its appearance in the modern speech is due to an unnecessary etymological restoration.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

This ostensibly historical compilation became, in the form given to it by Alfonso and his assistants and in the later redactions made of it, a veritable storehouse of Old Spanish epic poetry.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

A characteristic change in really popular words is that of Latin initial f (except before l, r, and ue) into a strong aspirate h sound, still incorrectly denoted by f in the Old Spanish period.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

Hiatus was common in Old Spanish, except when the first of two words was the definite article, a personal pronoun-object or the preposition _de_; or when the vowels were the same.

Modern Spanish Lyrics 1899

Here the unfortunate Captain Gunnison, in 1853, passed over on his way to his doom, and here, too, the Old Spanish

The Romance of the Colorado River Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh 1894

Moreover, the Old Spanish version which was made in 1251 probably was also the work of the Jewish school of translators established in Toledo by Alfonso.

Chapters on Jewish Literature Israel Abrahams 1891

[37] Also written "pederero" -- from Old Spanish _pedra_, "a stone;" so named because of the use of stone for balls, before iron balls were invented; a swivel-gun.

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 14 of 55 1606-1609 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of The Catholic Missions, As Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century Edward Gaylord Bourne 1884