The paper presents a preliminary survey of possible Italian loanwords and calques in Modern Irish. For each lexical item, its Italian source-word, word-class, meaning and century of earliest recorded occurrence are given. Common routes, dating and grammatical adaptation are briefly tackled.

Italian loanwords in Modern Irish: a preliminary survey

ROMA, ELISA
2015-01-01

Abstract

The paper presents a preliminary survey of possible Italian loanwords and calques in Modern Irish. For each lexical item, its Italian source-word, word-class, meaning and century of earliest recorded occurrence are given. Common routes, dating and grammatical adaptation are briefly tackled.
2015
978 88 6787 080 6
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