# Etymology of Spanish word "reloj"

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 18, 2003, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/etymology-of-spanish-word-reloj/213912 "2003-11-18T15:37:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kizarvexius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@Kizarvexius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kizarvexius)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2003, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/etymology-of-spanish-word-reloj/213912/21 "2003-11-19T16:00:33Z")

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Can anyone recommend a good web-based utility for looking up the etymology of Spanish words? And if it’s designed for English speakers, so much the better. I’m taking an introduction to Spanish course, so my grasp of the language is not good enough yet to navigate through a dictionary of Spanish for Spanish speakers. But having a couple of years of French and Latin behind me, and being a logophile, I’m very interested in etymologies. Is anyone aware of anything along these lines?

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**Author:** ![Grousser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9d8465/32.png) [@Grousser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grousser)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2003, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/etymology-of-spanish-word-reloj/213912/22 "2003-11-20T07:59:24Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Bad News Baboon \*  
> \*\*When you say we, do you mean a local dialect? or we, people from Mexico in general?  
> I have never pronounced reloj with a hard g in it ever. It’s the same j as in Juarez. \*\*

I mean we the most of mexicans. But I wouldn’t say it as a “hard g”. It’s more like a “soft g”, because trying to pronounce the spanish sound of the “j” at the end is a little uncomfortable.

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