A History of the Spanish Lexicon

What Loanwords Tell Us about Spanish (and Spain)

“…These languages together with 2 While it is true that there had been Greek colonies in present-day Spain before the arrival of the Romans, they left very few words: toponyms (Empúries, Roses) and, probably, the word seta ('mushroom'). Because of this, Greek is not counted as substrate despite early contacts (Dworkin 2012;Penny 2002). For the same reason, we do not count Greek as baseline Spanish in this study.…”

“…For the same reason, we do not count Greek as baseline Spanish in this study. Direct and prolonged contact with all this variety of languages produced several additions to the Spanish vocabulary (Dworkin 2012;Penny 2002). Although these contact situations had been ongoing by the time the first official dictionary of Spanish, the Diccionario de Autoridades, was published by RAE in 1726, we will count the lexical items that came from these languages as loanwords as these were not existent in the creation of the aforementioned "standard.…”

“…Ancient Greek has been resorted to in need for scientific and technical terms from ancient times until nowadays (Dworkin 2012;Gutiérrez Rodilla 1998) (Dworkin 2012, 135-136).…”

Vida social en el reino de Granada a través de sus arabismos (1491-1621): «(al)guadoc», «azalá», «leila», «macaber»

“…El estudio de la pérdida léxica, junto con los consecuentes procesos de sustitución a que da lugar, continúa siendo un aspecto poco tratado en las actuales investigaciones sobre la historia del léxico español(Cano Aguilar, 1993;Giménez Eguíbar, 2011;Dworkin, 2012).3 Esta práctica consistía en fingir la adopción de la fe católica.…”