Sobre els peixos gerret i xucla

Authors

  • Germà Colón i Domènech

Abstract

Etymological and lexical study of the icthyonyms gerret ?Spicara smaris? and xucla ?Spicara maena?. The author diverges from recent hypotheses and defends the traditional explanations: gerret contains the suffix ?ITTU, which forms diminutives (and not ?ETUM), and the word xucla or sucla comes from xuclar or suclar ?to absorb?; the Provençal terms gerlet, jarret and juscle, and the synonym caramel from southern Castilian were considered.

Published

2001-07-26

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