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  • 6 - Lexicon and Etymologies

  • Paul Newman, Indiana University
  • Book:
    A History of the Hausa Language
    Published online:
    24 March 2022
    Print publication:
    31 March 2022, pp 212-220

  • Summary

    This chapter gives a sample list of more than twenty Hausa lexical retentions from Proto-Chadic and a comparable list of basic Hausa words without cognates in sister Chadic languages. Also included is a discussion of interesting individual etymologies including boko ‘Western practices’, kasuwa ‘market’, laba ‘pound (weight)’, and zuciya ‘heart’.

  • 5 - Loanwords

  • Paul Newman, Indiana University
  • Book:
    A History of the Hausa Language
    Published online:
    24 March 2022
    Print publication:
    31 March 2022, pp 205-211

  • Summary

    The Hausa lexicon has been inundated by loanwords, primarily from Arabic and English but also from Kanuri, Tuareg, Fulani and, more recently, Yoruba. Gender assignment has been based both on phonological patterning, mainly the association of final /a/ with feminine gender, and on semantic patterning with prior words. Phonology has been modified primarily by greater incidence and usage of glottal stop and /h/, increased incidence of the rolled R, introduction of numerous word-final consonants, retention of /e/ and /o/ in closed syllables, the incorporation of new nouns with short final vowels, and the introduction of nouns with a final Low-Low tone pattern.