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Revista de Filología y Linguística de la Universidad de Costa Rica
versión On-line ISSN 2215-2628versión impresa ISSN 0377-628X
Resumen
PORTILLA, Mario. Huetar etymology of the word Toboba Venomous Snake. Rev. filol. linguíst. Univ. Costa Rica [online]. 2022, vol.48, n.1, 48896. ISSN 2215-2628. http://dx.doi.org/10.15517/rfl.v48i1.48896.
In this paper, the author proposes a Huetar origin for the word toboba poisonous snake. This Chibchan language was the most important substrate language of Costa Rican Spanish. First of all, he analyses the semasiology of this lexeme and its geographical spread. Then, using the Comparative Method, he establishes a series of systematic correspondences between this word and possible cognates of other related languages in order to prove their kinship and origin from the same reconstructed protoform.
Palabras clave : Huetar; Chibchan languages; Costa Rican Spanish; loanwords; etymology.