Antzinateko "Iturissa"-tik gaurko "ithurri"-ra, "ezker" bidetik
- 1 Euskaltzaindia
ISSN: 0582-6152
Any de publicació: 2018
Volum: 52
Número: 1-2
Pàgines: 507-516
Tipus: Article
Altres publicacions en: Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca Julio de Urquijo: International journal of basque linguistics and philology
Resum
In this paper, I offer new etymologies for two Basque words, iturri ‘fountain’ and ezker ‘left’. Together with Uhlenbeck, I consider iturri to be an old participle, built on the root hur ‘water’. As for ezker, I propose that it bears the same root that is present in the word hezi ‘tame’, and that its etymological meaning is something like ‘untameable’, most typically when speaking about hands.