@article{d52fc4c7-c150-4844-bc10-a1d7756313f9,
author = {Luciano Rocchi},
title = {ON TWO OLD ITALIAN TURKISMS (1. cassasso 2. pettomagi/pettomanzi)},
journal = {Studia Etymologica Cracoviensia},
volume = {2011},
number = {Volume 16, Issue 1},
year = {2011},
issn = {1427-8219},
pages = {125-128},keywords = {etymology; diachrony; language contact; areal linguistics; linguistic history},
abstract = {The paper aims to explain the origin of two old Italian words of Turkish origin, cassasso ‘a Turkish police officer’ and pettomagi/pettomanzi ‘Turkish officer(s) dealing with the possesions of the dead’. Contrary to a previous etymology of his, the author’s present opinion is that cassasso derives from the Ottoman-Turkish hasas, a spoken variant of the literary Arabism ‘ases ‘a guard, night-watchman, policeman’. As to pettomagi/pettomanzi, it is possibly a Turkish adaptation of Greek words as πεϑ αμός ‘death’, πεϑ αμένος ‘dead’ + nominal suffix -cI.},
doi = {10.4467/20843836SE.11.010.0056},
url = {https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/studia-etymologica-cracoviensia/artykul/on-two-old-italian-turkisms-1-cassasso-2-pettomagi-pettomanzi}
}