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Alcune osservazioni sugli orientalismi del napoletano

RiDESN I/2 (2023), 31-45

Abstract

The paper focuses on Orientalisms in the Neapolitan dialect, according to the ways of transmission: borrowings from Sicilian, from Ibero-Romance and from the Persian-Arabic-Latin and Turkish tradition. The survey is based on the materials of the Orientalia section of the Lessico Etimologico Italiano (LEI). Keywords: Neapolitan dialect, borrowings from oriental languages, historical lexicography, etymology, Lessico Etimologico Italiano (LEI), LEI-Orientalia