Etymology and Ethnolinguistics: Animal Kinship Terms and Totemism in Sardinia

• Autores: Eduardo Blasco Ferrer
• Localización: Romance philology, ISSN 0035-8002, Vol. 75, Nº. 1 (Spring 2021), 2021, ISBN 978-2-503-59238-1, págs. 139-174
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Ethymological Research on Animal Kinship Terms in Sardinian. It is well known that we owe to the brilliant German Romanist Max Leopold Wagner the impressive etymological collection of the Sardinian lexicon (DES), fruit of a half century of dialect research. Wagner's work is, on the whole, reliable, and his ethymological entries still constitute an enviable model of philological rigor and reconstructive skill. Nonetheless, there is one partcular sector of Sardinian lexicology that put the distinguished "maestro" of Sardinian lexicology to a rigorous test. Faced with the seemingly total formal opacity of the words discussed, he surrendered, in a somewhat awkward fashion, to an appeal to a mythical paleo-Sardinian substarte, imbued with a Hamitic component.