Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Table of contents
- A dialogue about the etymology of Yiddish páze
- Slavic-Germanic hybridisation in the Vilamovicean language
- A neglected Common Slavic word family for ‘Nymphaeaceae’
- Non-Indo-European features of the Tocharian dialects
- Again on the so-called etymological formulae
- Noun formation in modern Upper Sorbian (selected issues)
- The treatment of pagoda in etymological dictionaries
- The etymological connection between ἐνίπτω, ἐνίψω, ἴψαο, (προ)ΐαψε, ἐνένῑπε and ἠνίπαπε
- Bulgarian borrowings in Hungarian: the problem of reflecting *q
- Daps, epulum et sollemnis : une famille méconnue en latin
- Distinguishing Kipchak and Turkish words in Polish documents
- On the Yeniseian Arin word teminkur ‘ore’
- Weitere Ergänzungen zu W. Leslaus Untersuchungen des arabischen Lehnguts im Amharischen
- Bulg. tarikàt ‘Gauner’
- The origin of English hire (noun and verb), being also a look at the state of the art and the etymology of Germanic *hūs ‘house’
- Türkismen in deutschen Wörterbüchern
- A lovely alternative: Proto-Slavic *ljubo
- A short history of Cornish lexicography
- Phraseologische Glossen – ein Differenzierungsversuch an Beispielen aus ausgewählten deutsch-polnischen Wörterbüchern
- On Latin strāgulum and strāgēs: -g- and analogy
- Compiling dictionaries of defunct (?) languages: Thracian elements in Romanian
- Google Books as a source of historical data: the entry for macaroni in OED3
- Quelques notes lexicales sur le Vocabulaire de la langue turque de Joseph von Preindl
- Lueli
- IE *bheu-‘to be’: a typologically motivated etymology
- Gothic aibr ‘gift, offering’
- Phonetic adaptation of Arabic loanwords in Argenti's Ottoman Turkish (1533). Part 1. Consonants and semivowels
- Vier türkische Etymologien (oder ufak uşakların „yuvarladıkları“ yufka)
- Les noms des produits d'hygiène et de beauté dans le Waaren-Lexicon de Pf. A. Nemnich (1797) .
- Preliminary notes on linguistic documents from the von Celsings’ 18th century Ottoman collection
- Let's talk like a Turk with a Manchu or a story of a certain text from Professor Stanisław Kałużyński's collection
- Winter's law in nasal-infix verbs in Baltic
- Türkçe alçak Kelimesinin Etimolojisi Üzerine
- Altuigurisches Gold
Phonetic adaptation of Arabic loanwords in Argenti's Ottoman Turkish (1533). Part 1. Consonants and semivowels
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 January 2018
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Table of contents
- A dialogue about the etymology of Yiddish páze
- Slavic-Germanic hybridisation in the Vilamovicean language
- A neglected Common Slavic word family for ‘Nymphaeaceae’
- Non-Indo-European features of the Tocharian dialects
- Again on the so-called etymological formulae
- Noun formation in modern Upper Sorbian (selected issues)
- The treatment of pagoda in etymological dictionaries
- The etymological connection between ἐνίπτω, ἐνίψω, ἴψαο, (προ)ΐαψε, ἐνένῑπε and ἠνίπαπε
- Bulgarian borrowings in Hungarian: the problem of reflecting *q
- Daps, epulum et sollemnis : une famille méconnue en latin
- Distinguishing Kipchak and Turkish words in Polish documents
- On the Yeniseian Arin word teminkur ‘ore’
- Weitere Ergänzungen zu W. Leslaus Untersuchungen des arabischen Lehnguts im Amharischen
- Bulg. tarikàt ‘Gauner’
- The origin of English hire (noun and verb), being also a look at the state of the art and the etymology of Germanic *hūs ‘house’
- Türkismen in deutschen Wörterbüchern
- A lovely alternative: Proto-Slavic *ljubo
- A short history of Cornish lexicography
- Phraseologische Glossen – ein Differenzierungsversuch an Beispielen aus ausgewählten deutsch-polnischen Wörterbüchern
- On Latin strāgulum and strāgēs: -g- and analogy
- Compiling dictionaries of defunct (?) languages: Thracian elements in Romanian
- Google Books as a source of historical data: the entry for macaroni in OED3
- Quelques notes lexicales sur le Vocabulaire de la langue turque de Joseph von Preindl
- Lueli
- IE *bheu-‘to be’: a typologically motivated etymology
- Gothic aibr ‘gift, offering’
- Phonetic adaptation of Arabic loanwords in Argenti's Ottoman Turkish (1533). Part 1. Consonants and semivowels
- Vier türkische Etymologien (oder ufak uşakların „yuvarladıkları“ yufka)
- Les noms des produits d'hygiène et de beauté dans le Waaren-Lexicon de Pf. A. Nemnich (1797) .
- Preliminary notes on linguistic documents from the von Celsings’ 18th century Ottoman collection
- Let's talk like a Turk with a Manchu or a story of a certain text from Professor Stanisław Kałużyński's collection
- Winter's law in nasal-infix verbs in Baltic
- Türkçe alçak Kelimesinin Etimolojisi Üzerine
- Altuigurisches Gold
Summary
Rationale
Arabic loanwords in Ottoman and modern Turkish are conspicuous, ubiquitous, collected and discussed in ALOT, and – perhaps for these reasons – taken for granted. But the topic is not closed; various detailed problems, such as several regarding the phonetic adaptation, remain largely unsolved and do not appear to be currently under intense scrutiny.
Some works have been devoted to this issue, e.g. Altun (2012), Korkmaz (2007), Öztekten (2013), or Yavaş (1978), but they tend to focus on modern Turkish for which, I believe, it is too soon. At any point in time, the vocabulary of a language is composed of layers inherited from different periods when different rules were in force; combined with dialectal influences, this creates a mixture that may well prove next to impossible to decompose. By starting with the earliest possible attestations, on the other hand, we give ourselves a much better chance of understanding the state that they ended up blending into. Some research has already been made in this direction, e.g. by Stachowski M. (2012a and b).
The present paper continues this stream by presenting and preliminarily analysing the phonetic adaptation of Arabic loanwords contained in a 1533 manuscript by Filippo Argenti (ed. Rocchi 2007). Section 1 contains an introduction and a slightly more detailed look at the original spelling; section 2 the actual presentation and bits of analysis, and section 3 a brief, intermediate summary. This part is limited to consonats and semivowels; the second part will basically repeat the same scheme for vowels, and will also contain a full list of borrowings.
Introduction
Filippo Argenti was a Florentine diplomat in Constantinople, and the author of one of the largest Ottoman Turkish transcription texts in the Latin alphabet. The vocabulary contained in his work, more than four thousand items, was examined and published as a dictionary by L. Rocchi (2007).
Most conveniently, Rocchi included etymology in his edition. I must state clearly, however, that the etyma he gives are not strictly for Argenti's forms, but for other Ottoman or modern Turkish (literary or dialectal) words which he believes to be somehow related. I take the liberty of positing them as the sources also for Argenti's attestations, and should any of them prove to be incorrect, the fault lies with me alone.
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- Words and DictionariesA Festschrift for Professor Stanisław Stachowski on the Occasion of His 85th Birthday, pp. 297 - 318Publisher: Jagiellonian University PressPrint publication year: 2016