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On two Old Italian Turcisms (1. cassasso 2. pettomagi/pettomanzi)

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Rocchi L.
Studia Etymologica Cracoviensia
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2011
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vol. 16
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issue 1
125-128
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The paper aims to explain the origin of two old Italian words of Turkish origin, cassasso ‘a Turkish police officer’ and pettomagi/pettomanzi ‘Turkish officer(s) dealing with the possesions of the dead’. Contrary to a previous etymology of his, the author’s present opinion is that cassasso derives from the Ottoman-Turkish hasas, a spoken variant of the literary Arabism ‘ases ‘a guard, night-watchman, policeman’. As to pettomagi/pettomanzi, it is possibly a Turkish adaptation of Greek words.
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