Miecha

Jose ignacio Hualde

doi:10.1387/asju.20207

Miecha

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Abstract

In this paper I consider the chronology of the oldest identifiable loanwords that Spanish and other Ibero-Romance languages appear to have taken from Basque. The dating of these loanwords is somewhat more certain when they have undergone datable sound changes in the borrowing language. Here I focus on the medieval praenomen Miecha, seemingly from Spanish mi ‘my’ and Basque aita ‘father’. I consider the evolution form aita to -echa within the historical phonology of the Spanish language. The dating of borrowings from Basque to Romance may also help elucidate when the languages came into contact.

Original language	Other
Pages (from-to)	345-351
Journal	International Journal of Basque Linguistics and Philology
Volume	52
Issue number	1/2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1387/asju.20207
State	Published - 2018

Keywords

loanwords
Spanish-Basque historical contact
chronology of sound changes

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