Reconstruction:Mozarabic/s̆augaçro

This Mozarabic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Mozarabic

Etymology

From Latin salicastrum, with syncope of /ĭ/ and vocalization of preconsonantal /l/ to /u̯/. For the development of /st/ to /ts/ before /r/, cf. Latin castrum > Old Portuguese alcaçer, which also passed through Mozarabic.

Noun

*s̆augaçro m

rockrose (?)

Descendants

→ Galician: chougazo, zargazo
→ Portuguese: sargaço (metathesis of /r/ and loss of /w/)
- → Catalan: sargàs
- → English: sargasso
- → Italian: sargasso
- → Spanish: sargazo
- → Translingual: Sargassum
Via a doubly-metathesized variant *s̆aguarço:
- → Arabic: شَكْوَس‎ (šakwas), شَقْوَص‎ (šaqwaṣ), شَقْوَاص‎ (šaqwāṣ)
- → Galician: chaguazo
- → Old Spanish: xaguarço
  - Spanish: jaguarzo

References

Corriente, Federico (2008), “arcazón”, in Dictionary of Arabic and Allied Loanwords. Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Galician and Kindred Dialects (Handbook of Oriental Studies; 97), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 186
Joan Coromines; José A. Pascual (1984), “arcazón”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volume I (A–Ca), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 315