The Pícaro and His Cryptolect (Germanía): Sources in Caló (Para-Romani Andalusian).
Spanish pícaro is traced via Caló (Andalusian para-Romani) to a Romani root pek - and its several derivatives in the semantic fields of "bake, roast, burn, tease, fornicate, monitor, snoop, steal". The phonological form and these meanings were calqued in the late sixteenth or early seventeenth centu...
| Publicado en: | Romance Notes Vol. 65; no. 2; pp. 215 - 223 |
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University of North Carolina Press
2025
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