Azaga= "postrimería"?
ISSN: 0582-6152
Argitalpen urtea: 1992
Alea: 26
Zenbakia: 3
Orrialdeak: 1003-1006
Mota: Artikulua
Beste argitalpen batzuk: Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca Julio de Urquijo: International journal of basque linguistics and philology
Laburpena
This short note deals with the possible etymology of the word azaga, considered an hapax and found in Refranes y Sentencias in 1596. In this collection of proverbs, it was translated into Spanish as �postrimería', which has led to the supposition of a romanic (zaga), and ultimately arabic origin. Here, on the contrary, a different reading is proposed: atzaga, with an affricated sibilant, a word noted in Oñati by K. lzagirre (1970), meaning �a pole placed between two trees on which sheep can scratch themselves'.