TY - JOUR
TI - THE “NEW IMAGE” OF INDO-EUROPEAN AND THE NOSTRATIC HYPOTHESIS: A POSSIBLE RECONCILIATION OF RECONSTRUCTIONS
AU - Shields Jr., Kenneth
TI - THE “NEW IMAGE” OF INDO-EUROPEAN AND THE NOSTRATIC HYPOTHESIS: A POSSIBLE RECONCILIATION OF RECONSTRUCTIONS
AB - 
	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.
VL - 2011
IS - Volume 16, Issue 1
PY - 2011
SN - 1427-8219
C1 - 2084-3836
SP - 129
EP - 139
DO - 10.4467/20843836SE.11.011.0057
UR - https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/studia-etymologica-cracoviensia/artykul/the-new-image-of-indo-european-and-the-nostratic-hypothesis-a-possible-reconciliation-of-reconstructions
KW - etymology
KW - diachrony
KW - language contact
KW - areal linguistics
KW - linguistic history