Kenneth Shields Jr.
Studia Etymologica Cracoviensia, Volume 18, Issue 3, 2013, pp. 147-152
https://doi.org/10.4467/20843836SE.13.009.0946On the basis of formal correspondences and typological data, it is argued in this brief paper that an etymological connection probably exists between the Indo-European dative suffix *-ei and the Indo-European causative element *-ei- via a morpheme which Song (1996) describes as “PURP.” Most significantly, the paper demonstrates how typological data can serve a primary role in reconstruction rather than a merely evaluative one.
Kenneth Shields Jr.
Studia Etymologica Cracoviensia, Volume 20, Issue 3, 2015, pp. 207-210
https://doi.org/10.4467/20843836SE.15.013.2799Kenneth Shields Jr.
Studia Etymologica Cracoviensia, Volume 16, Issue 1, 2011, pp. 129-139
https://doi.org/10.4467/20843836SE.11.011.0057The 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.