Re: floor

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "dgkilday57" <dgkilday57@...> wrote:

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> The resemblance of <cerrus> to <carrasca> is most likely coincidental
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> > As coincidental as Span. Chorizo, Port. Chouriço, Catal. Xoriço in
> > comparison with Romanian $oric ($orici) [So-'rik / So-'ritS] "pig's
> > skin (esp. prepared, e.g. in bacon)".
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> 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.),
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The "alternation" can be seen in the Biscayan dialect of Basque, which regularly has -err- > -arr- as in berri > barri 'new', zerri > zarri 'pig', 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.
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IMHO this can be concidental. As we've got Iberian kar´es (presumably 'oak'), this looks like a stem *karres-/*karras- plus a suffix -ka. 



But <cerrus> has no such suffix, so equating these words raises a serious morphological issue.

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> DGK
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