Huetar Etymology of the Word Toboba ‘Venomous Snake’

 

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Author: Portilla, Mario
Format: artículo original
Status:Versión publicada
Publication Date:2021
Description:In this paper, the author proposes a Huetar origin for the word toboba ‘poisonous snake’. This Chibchan language was the most important substrate language of Costa Rican Spanish. First of all, he analyses the semasiology of this lexeme and its geographical spread. Then, using the Comparative Method, he establishes a series of systematic correspondences between this word and possible cognates of other related languages in order to prove their kinship and origin from the same reconstructed protoform.
Country:Portal de Revistas UCR
Institution:Universidad de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas UCR
Language:Español
OAI Identifier:oai:portal.ucr.ac.cr:article/48896
Online Access:https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/filyling/article/view/48896
Keyword:Huetar
Chibchan languages
Costa Rican Spanish
loanwords
etymology
huetar
lenguas chibchas
español de Costa Rica
préstamos
etimología