ghjacaru
Corsican
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Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Probably from Vulgar Latin *cattulus (“whelp, puppy”), from Latin catŭlus (“puppy”).[1][2][3]
Or, from or influenced by a metathesis of Basque txakur, xakur (“puppy”);[4] however, this has been dismissed as speculative.[5] Compare Spanish cachorro and Sardinian giagaru.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]ghjacaru m (plural ghjacari)
- (Ultramontane dialects) dog (Canis familiaris)
Synonyms
[edit]- (Cismontane dialects) cane
References
[edit]- “ghjacaru, ghiacaru, jacaru” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa
- ^ “cachorro”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28
- ^ Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN
- ^ “cachorro” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
- ^ Spanish in Contact: Issues in Bilingualism. (1996). United States: Cascadilla Press, p. 3
- ^ Trask, R. L. (2013). The History of Basque. United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis, p. 416