< Reconstruction:Mozarabic
Reconstruction:Mozarabic/s̆augaçro
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