Connotaciones vascas en los vocablos en -"rr"- gascón

Abstract

The present work corroborates the fact that in Gascon and Bearnese, vocabulary items in -rr- do exist, and they clearly present both formal and functional resemblance with -rr- words in Ibero-Romance. Based in such concordances, an attempt is made to show the presence, importance, and influence of the Basque substratum on Gascon and Bearnese. This influence, together with the subsequent survival of an old lexicon, explicable only by means of Basque, supports the wider hypothesis that the -rr- suffixes exist in Ibero-Romance as a result of analogical creation, based on lexical models from the Basque language.
   Following an overview of historical aspects, the study highlights the contrasts between French and Basque influences. Also, morphological details of specific Gascon words are displayed in support of a Gascon-Basque paralellism. This particular emphasis contributes to underline the similarities and concordances between Gascon, Ibero-Romance, and Basque.
   The study includes a complete exposition of the generic characteristics of Gascon -rr- suffixes. It concludes with a rich selection and analysis of Gascon vocabulary in -rr-.