txakur/dzhagaru/cachorro....

[Miguel Carrasquer Vidal]

On Tue, 16 Jan 2001 13:23:06 +0100, "Eduard Selleslagh" <edsel at glo.be>
wrote:

><Carrasco> has all the characteristics of a somewhat complicated origin: it is
>almost certainly a compound, with the suffix -(V)sco, which can be IE but just
>as well Iberian or Basque, even though that wouldn't affect its meaning. I
>would guess that the Latin form is derived from a substrate word with /a/. The
>Spanish word cannot possibly be derived directly from the late-Latin form,
>because the Latin c would have become /T/ (English th), not /k/ [In Sp. cerro
>means 'small mountain, hill']. On the other hand, no such objection exists for
>It. cerro.  Could <carrasco> and Lat. cerrus /kerrus/ be related to a pre-IE
>root and/or Celtic, for a certain type of mountain landscape? In such case,
>the suffix -sko would make a lot of sense. Just a thought.

Carrasca's grow on stony ground (the Dutch name is "steeneik"), so a
connection with *KARR- "stone" is not unlikely.

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
mcv at wxs.nl