A SUPPLEMENTAL NOTE ON THE ORIGIN OF ENGLISH GUINEA PIG

Marek Stachowski

A SUPPLEMENTAL NOTE ON THE ORIGIN OF ENGLISH GUINEA PIG

Publication date: 19.10.2018

Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis, 2018, Volume 135, Issue 3, pp. 159-160

https://doi.org/10.4467/20834624SL.18.013.8849

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A SUPPLEMENTAL NOTE ON THE ORIGIN OF ENGLISH GUINEA PIG

Abstract

This is a note to support a conjecture published some time ago and concerning the mechanism of the emergence of the word guinea as part of the English name of guinea pig.

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etymology, English language, Romance languages, biological terminology

References

Dauzat A. 1938. Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue française. Paris.

Stachowski M. 2014. Is the English guinea pig a pig from Guinea, and the German Meerschweinchen a piggy from the sea?, or two old problems revisited. – Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis 131: 221–228.

Weekley E. 1911. The romance of words. New York.

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Information: Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis, 2018, Volume 135, Issue 3, pp. 159-160

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/20834624SL.18.013.8849

Article type: Original article

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A SUPPLEMENTAL NOTE ON THE ORIGIN OF ENGLISH GUINEA PIG

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A SUPPLEMENTAL NOTE ON THE ORIGIN OF ENGLISH GUINEA PIG

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Marek Stachowski

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0667-8862

Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Gołębia 24, 31-007 Kraków, Poland

Published at: 19.10.2018

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