[Strawbale] Aliz plaster (was Alis plaster)

[Derek Roff]

Hi, Bill,

Your experience certainly exceeds mine.  I am interested that you haven't 
found use of any noun to describe a clay slip paint or thin finish plaster 
coat of this type.  I agree that the related verb is alisar.

Linguistics and dialectology are both topics that I enjoy.  It's been a 
while since I researched the word aliz, and I found few references to it. 
Perhaps a a dozen or so in the Spanish language dictionaries and references 
that I could locate.  If I remember correctly, I only found two authorities 
mentioning alis as an alternate spelling.

I am pleased to find out that New Mexico is not in North America and that 
neither Spain nor New Mexico are of interest in discussing the Spanish 
language.   ;-)

Best wishes from the irrelevant cultural backwater of New Mexico,

Derelict


--On Saturday, March 31, 2007 7:36 AM -0700 Athena & Bill Steen 
<absteen at dakotacom.net> wrote:

> Sorry bout that Derelict, but no such word exists in Spanish, only  the
> natural building world where it got misspelled from the beginning  of
> recent natural building history or perhaps in northern New  Mexico.  Of
> course I can allow that the New Mexicans messed it up  along the
> historical path, I haven't looked closely there.  Perhaps  if you go back
> to Spain one might find such a variation, but not in  North/South
> America.  Anyhow to begin with the word is not a noun.   There are two
> common forms, one is the verb "alisar" which means to  smooth things
> out,

Derek Roff
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