Anyone speak Spanish ?

[venta]

I've just had an enquiry from my mother: someone in her office needs to know the meaning of the Spanish word "paqueña". Any ideas ?

I've tried a couple of on-line dictionaries, but they don't contain it. I don't know whether this means they're rubbish, the word is colloquial, or the word is jut plain wrong.

Thanks for any help.

Update: Thanks to a non-LJ source of help, I can now reveal that a Paqueña is a lady from La Paz. A Paqueño is a gentleman from that city.

Update2: And having ferried the information back, via the mother, to the original enquirer... it turns out that yes, they did want to know what "pequeña" meant, but typo'd when asking.

Comments

[venta.livejournal.com]

Yes, apparently someone in my mum's office has just suggested that.

A dictionary I checked gives small as "pequeño" - would the last letter maybe change with gender ?

[beckyc.livejournal.com]

Yes, the o ending is for male nouns, the a for female ones.

[sushidog.livejournal.com]

Yes, adjectives agree with their nouns, so a masculine small thing is pequeno and a feminine small thing is pequena.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Thanks - I've never learned any Spanish at all, so was completely in the dark!

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

I don't speak Spanish myself, but I note that "paqueña niña" is used (online) in contexts where it ought to mean "little girl" so possibly the "La Paz" translation is too literal ?

Compare with the French "poupette", which technically means a kind of doll but in colloquial French is regularly aimed at babies and young children.

[sushidog.livejournal.com]

"Pequeña niña" literally translates as "little girl"...