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Quick Catalan question
Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2022 12:48 pm
by alice
Where did /ʧ/ come from, aside from devoicing of word-final /ʤ/?
Re: Quick Catalan question
Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2022 4:53 pm
by Linguoboy
alice wrote: ↑Thu Jun 09, 2022 12:48 pmWhere did /ʧ/ come from, aside from devoicing of word-final /ʤ/?
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.
Re: Quick Catalan question
Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2022 1:44 pm
by Kuchigakatai
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.