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Subject: Re: looking for meaning in my last name
Author: Helena   (Authenticated as mellon.collie)
Date: May 6, 2008 at 3:09:36 PM
Reply to: looking for meaning in my last name by Santisteban
I'm no Spanish expert but I'd say it means St. Stephen - santo 'saint' and Esteban 'Stephen'. I'm pretty sure some linguistic phenomenon whose name I can't remember happened and made it Santisteban, which is less of a tongue-twister than Santo-Esteban because of the two consonants in a row not forming a diphtong.

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