TY - JOUR
TI - ON TWO OLD ITALIAN TURKISMS (1. cassasso 2. pettomagi/pettomanzi)
AU - Rocchi, Luciano
TI - ON TWO OLD ITALIAN TURKISMS (1. cassasso 2. pettomagi/pettomanzi)
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 - 125
EP - 128
DO - 10.4467/20843836SE.11.010.0056
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/studia-etymologica-cracoviensia/article/on-two-old-italian-turkisms-1-cassasso-2-pettomagi-pettomanzi
KW - etymology
KW - diachrony
KW - language contact
KW - areal linguistics
KW - linguistic history