Reconstruction:Mozarabic/šaugaçro

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/, cf. Latin castrum > Old Spanish alcaçar (modern alcázar), which also passed through Mozarabic.

Noun

*šaugaçro m

1. rockrose (?)

Descendants

• → Galician: chougazo, zargazo
• → Portuguese: sargaço (metathesis of /r/ and loss of /w/)
  • → Catalan: sargàs
  • → English: sargasso
  • → Italian: sargasso
  • → Spanish: sargazo
  • → Translingual: Sargassum

Reflexes of a doubly-metathesized variant *šaguarço:

• → 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) “jaguarzo”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volumes I (A–Ca), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 481