Quick Catalan question
Quick Catalan question
Where did /ʧ/ come from, aside from devoicing of word-final /ʤ/?
Self-referential signatures are for people too boring to come up with more interesting alternatives.
Re: Quick Catalan question
Foreign borrowings. Examples:
Aragonese fardacho > Catalan fardatxho "ocellated lizard"
English sketch > Catalan esquetx "sketch"
French bachelier > Catalan batxiller "bachelor; busybody"
Italian salsiccia > Catalan salsitxa "pork sausage"
Mozarabic číčaro > Catalan xítxero "pea"
Spanish machete > Catalan matxet "machete"
I'm sure there are some examples of irregular internal developments, but I can't think of any at the moment.
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Re: Quick Catalan question
Sanskrit cakra > Catalan txakra "chakra"
"clotxa" might be inherited from Latin cochlea, but the sound change -CL- > -tx- is admittedly very weird, cf. the regular -CL- > -ll- [ʎ] sound change in vetulum > "veclu" > vell, oculum > ull, auricula > orella.
The possibly related Spanish cuchara < cuchar + -a < cochleāre also shows a weird -CL- > -ch- change... cf. viejo, ojo, oreja.
"clotxa" might be inherited from Latin cochlea, but the sound change -CL- > -tx- is admittedly very weird, cf. the regular -CL- > -ll- [ʎ] sound change in vetulum > "veclu" > vell, oculum > ull, auricula > orella.
The possibly related Spanish cuchara < cuchar + -a < cochleāre also shows a weird -CL- > -ch- change... cf. viejo, ojo, oreja.