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Warren D

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I've noticed a lot of houses in Ibiza have names and most house names seem to begin with "Can". What does "Can" mean?
 
Warren D said:
I've noticed a lot of houses in Ibiza have names and most house names seem to begin with "Can". What does "Can" mean?
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Ca'n is a possesive article... is like your genitive sajon Warren's house. In Mallorca, Ibiza... we use Ca'n like Ca'n Warren.
It comes from Ca+en=Ca'n when is a masculine name... when is female name then is Ca Na Trestrazos (p.ex).

Hope that helps you. ;)
 
trestrazos said:
Ca'n is a possesive article... is like your genitive sajon Warren's house. In Mallorca, Ibiza... we use Ca'n like Ca'n Warren.
It comes from Ca+en=Ca'n when is a masculine name... when is female name then is Ca Na Trestrazos (p.ex).

Hope that helps you. ;)
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What a convoluted response to a simple question. It's the Ibicenco equivalent of Casa or Chez. i.e. Ca'n Roger is the same as Casa Roger in Castillian or Chez Roget in French or I guess Dun Rogering in English!! :)
 
Thanks for the "Ca Na" though , I've lived on the island for three years and the masculine/feminine never occured to me before and yet all the time it was staring me in the face!
 
CasperSlides said:
Cala Llenya is one of my favourite beaches to the east of San Carlos which is a few kms north of Santa Eulalia.
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We have been house hunting on the island this year. One of the real estate agents emailed us details of a house they thought we might be interested in. The details said that the house was located in a place called Cove Firewood. I had never heard of the place and thought the name sounded far too English. Maybe it was some new development somewhere? but then I realized the agent must have used a computer program to translate all the details. Cala Llenya translated into English is "Cove Firewood" :lol:
 
Warren D said:
We have been house hunting on the island this year. One of the real estate agents emailed us details of a house they thought we might be interested in. The details said that the house was located in a place called Cove Firewood. I had never heard of the place and thought the name sounded far too English. Maybe it was some new development somewhere? but then I realized the agent must have used a computer program to translate all the details. Cala Llenya translated into English is "Cove Firewood" :lol:
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Just goes to show that estate agents are morons whatever country they operate in! :)
 
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