arcazón

Spanish

Etymology

Uncertain per Coromines & Pascual.^[1] Corriente sees in it a borrowing from a Mozarabic *šalqassún, assimilated variant of an older *šalqastún, from Latin salicastrum (“wild vine”) + -ōnem (augmentative ending).^[2] For the loss of the initial sibilant, he points to Valencian alcorroc < Arabic شَقَرَّاق (šaqarrāq, “common roller bird”).^[3]^{[n 1]} If he is right, that would make arcazón a doublet of jaguarzo (“rockrose”) and sargazo (“gulfweed”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): (Spain) /aɾkaˈθon/ [aɾ.kaˈθõn]
IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /aɾkaˈson/ [aɾ.kaˈsõn]
Rhymes: -on
Syllabification: ar‧ca‧zón

Noun

arcazón m (plural arcazones)

(Andalusia) wicker
Synonym: mimbre

Notes

^ Later he juxtaposes it as a likely alternative that Valencian alcorroc derives from Andalusian Arabic قَرُّوق (qarrūq) he notes a single probable attestation for,^[4] declared of Andalusi Romance or echoic derivation.^[5]

References

^ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1984) “arcazón”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume I (A–Ca), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 315
^ Corriente, Federico (2008) “arcazón”, in Dictionary of Arabic and Allied Loanwords. Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Galician and Kindred Dialects (Handbook of Oriental Studies; 97), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 186
^ Corriente, Federico (2008) “arcazón”, in Dictionary of Arabic and Allied Loanwords. Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Galician and Kindred Dialects (Handbook of Oriental Studies; 97), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 88
^ Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2019), Dictionnaire des emprunts ibéro-romans. Emprunts à l’arabe et aux langues du Monde Islamique (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 91
^ Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 1023