A Franco-Italian Etymological Note: borfolu

Author: Morgan L.Z.

Source: Neophilologus, Volume 85, Number 4, October 2001 , pp. 529-534(6)

Publisher: Springer

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Abstract:

Franco-Italian V 13 (Venice, Manoscritto marciano francese XIII = 256) is part of a tradition of written linguistic mixing occuring in a series of manuscripts from Northern Italy during the thirteenth through fifteenth centuries. One frequent linguistic phenomenon is metathesis, which explains many of the hapax legomena in these texts, including this previously unexplained lexeme, borfolu.

Language: English

Document Type: Regular paper

Affiliations: 1: Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, Loyola College in Maryland, 4501 North Charles St., Baltimore, MD 21210-2699 USA. E-mail: lzmorgan@bcpl.net

Publication date: 2001-10-01