carlanca
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Probably from earlier *carrancula (compare dialectal Spanish carrancha (“dog collar with spikes”)[1]), a metathesized form of (Latin) *carcannula, ultimately from carcannum.[2]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]carlanca f (plural carlancas)
References
[edit]- ^ David Pharies, Origin of the Spanish -nch- Suffixes (1994, academia.edu), mentions "And. carrancha 'mastiff collar with iron spikes', […] " (in a list of words with -nch-)
- ^ Iberoromania (in Spanish), 1994, page 33: “carrancha And. n. f. 'carlanca' (Alcalá Venceslada 1951: 136) < *carrancula, prob. a metathesized form of *carcannula < Late Latin carcannum”; see also RAE
Further reading
[edit]- “carlanca”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10