Spanish substrate/A

[Max W Wheeler]

On Thu, 11 Mar 1999, Rick Mc Callister wrote:

> artesa "type of box" 1330 "cajón cuadrilongo de madera que es más angosto
> hacia el fondo" pre-rom.; [c]
> v. vasco artesi "grieta, agujero" [c]

Coromines, Onomasticon Cataloniae, s.v. Artesa (de Segre) glosses the
Spanish word `pastera, conca de fe`nyer pa etc.' [kneading trough] and
suggests the toponym may be a metaphorical application of the
(pre-Romance) common noun seen in Spanish (otherwise absent from
Catalan). S.v. Artana he lists several other pre-Romance toponyms in
-esavfrom Catalan territory: Olesa, Albesa, Manresa, Ardesa, Utxesa,
Montesa, Anesa.

Max
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