Gure hiztegiak salatzen dituen itsasoko teknika iturriak

PEILLEN KARRIKABURU, Txomin

Publication year:

2002

Publication place:

Donostia-San Sebastián

ISBN:

84-8419-936-3

ISSN:

1137-439X

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Summary

Borrowings in the sea life vocabulary show that Basques went, rather late, to the seafaring, because a dangerous ocean and piracies of the seaside made a desert of the country. The first shipbuilders were Gascons who gave us a basic vocabulary, then technology, vocabulary borrowings came from all Europe. Much of fish names are spanish due to a recent spanish repopulation. On account of taboos borrowings are related to wind, waves, rocks. We can say that Basque sailormen partake of an Atlantic seaside common culture.