PÉRDIDA Y SUSTITUCIÓN DE ARABISMOS EN ESPAÑOL: COMIDAS, DULCES E INGREDIENTES DE LA COCINA MEDIEVAL

Abstract

With the loss of Arab political and cultural influence, many Arabisms fall out of use and are replaced by words mainly of Latin origin, as cultural borrowings. We have selected an inventory of 25 terms of Arabic origin that designate main courses, deserts or ingredients used in medieval cuisine, the latter being ingredients resulting from preparation, thus excluding natural ingredients such as fruit, vegetables or spices. The paper traces the linguistic history of these words over time, their disappearance, preservation or replacement by other terms, based on data from historical dictionaries and diachronic corpora of the Spanish language.