Where does “Judæo-Spanish” come from?

Judæo-Spanish (English) comes from English spanish, from Middle English Spainish.

Judæo-Spanish (English): A Romance language, based on Old Spanish, and spoken almost exclusively by Sephardic Jews in Greece and Turkey

Definitions

  1. A Romance language, based on Old Spanish, and spoken almost exclusively by Sephardic Jews in Greece and Turkey

Ancestry of “Judæo-Spanish”, step by step

Judæo-Spanish traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English spanish

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishspanishTo subject to spanishing, a printing process in...
2Middle EnglishSpainish—

via English Judæo

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishJudæo—
Every word from Middle English Spainish →