El origen de cuniculus (> conejo) y su difícil, pero legítima, relación con cunnus (> coño)
Author
García Hernández, BenjamínEntity
UAM. Departamento de Filología ClásicaPublisher
Sociedad de Estudios LatinosDate
2009Citation
Revista de estudios latinos (RELat) 9 (2009): 83-99ISSN
1578-7486 (print); 2255-5056 (online)Subjects
Etimología; sustrato prerromano; metáfora; paronimia; eufemismo.; FilologíaAbstract
El conejo es una especie particularmente ibérica y, según Varrón y Plinio, recibió el nombre de cuniculus en Hispania. Dada la proximidad fonética de ciertas formas del vasco, este nombre se ha considerado tradicionalmente latinización de una palabra ibérica. Sin embargo, no solo cabe plantear el parentesco vasco-latino al revés, sino que cuniculus es por su forma un diminutivo de cunnus. El vínculo significativo entre ambos lo proporciona el esp. madriguera (< matricaria), que ha sido el significado principal de la palabra latina, antes de designar otros tipos de galerías subterráneas. Cuniculus (‘conejo’) comenzó siendo la ‘liebre de madriguera’ (lepus cuniculus). Así que, por más difícil que haya sido la convivencia entre cuniculus y cunnus en latín y luego en romance entre conejo y coño o entre conil/conin y con, su relación etimológica es legítima y es inútil seguir velándola. The rabbit an animal native to the Iberian Peninsula, and according to Varro and Pliny it is in Hispania that is was first given the name cuniculus. Given its phonetic proximity to certain Basque forms, this noun has traditionally been considered a latinization of an Iberian word. However, not only should this Latin - Basque relationship be considered inversely, but also the fact that cuniculus is in its form a diminutive of cunnus. The link between the two can be seen with Sp. madriguera (<matricaria), which was the principal meaning of the Latin word, before it was applied to other kinds of undeground tunnel networks. Cuniculus ('rabbit) was originally used to designate the 'hate of the warren' (lepus cuniculus). For this reason, although the coexistence of the forms cuniculus and cunnus in Latin, and conejo and coño in Romance may have been a difficult one, as between conil/conin and con, their etymological relationship is certainly legitimate, and it is pointless form us to continue to deny it.
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