Re: floor

>The 'pigskin' words do not present a morphological issue. While the
>-err-/-arr- alternation can be justified within Hispania (cf.
>Echeverria/Xavier/Chabarri 'Newhouse' etc.), <carrasca> appears to be
>derived from *karr- (according to Alessio himself 'stone, rock') with
>a suffix. Miguel Carrasquer once pointed out that the carrasca
>indeed grows on stony ground. But <cerrus> has no such suffix, so
>equating these words raises a serious morphological issue.

But which of them is the etymon for chorizo?

(BTW, I only meant a simple coincidence; I didn't mean Span. chorizo
and Romanian $orici are akin. One is only tempted because of similar
phonetics and the semantic coincidence: "something pertaining to
pork".)

George