Hitita šakkar / zakkar ‘excrementum’, zama(n)kur ‘barba’ y similares
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https://doi.org/10.3989/emerita.2004.v72.i1.77Keywords:
hittite phonology, phonosuymbolism, Iberian phonology, sibilantsAbstract
This article deals with some hittite forms that show writing >z-< instead of the etymologically expected >s-<: at least for the forms indicated in the title, which guarantee that the point of departure must be the sibilant /s-/ reconstructed for the Proto-Indo-European, the proposed hypothesis is that the use of >z-<, intended as the actual representation of an affricate /tˢ-/, is due to the phonosymbolic value that this recent sound, of Proto- Anatolian date, can receive as sistematically opposed to the previously existent and isolated /s-/. Close parallels from Iberian languages, Basque and Spanish, are adduced.
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