albayalde
white lead — lead carbonate, the painters' white pigmentcarbonato de plomo, pigmento blanco de los pintores
Comes from Arabic
البَيَاض
al-bayāḍ
“whiteness; that which is white”«la blancura; lo blanco»
Arabic today says
أَبْيَضُ الرَّصَاص
abyaḍ ar-raṣāṣ
Root
ب ي ض
b-y-ḍ
The article
Spanish kept the Arabic article al- glued to the word.
The story
Arabic ḍ was then pronounced as a lateral and was heard as ld: bayāḍ gave -bayalde, just as in alcalde ("mayor", from al-qāḍī).La ḍ árabe tenía entonces una pronunciación lateral y se oyó como ld: bayāḍ dio -bayalde, igual que en alcalde (al-qāḍī).
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