De ‘buscar’ a ‘querer’. Notas sobre el origen del verbo querer en las lenguas iberroromances
From ‘seeking’ to ‘wanting’. Some remarks on the origin of the verb querer in the IBERO-ROMANCE languages

Author(s): Andrzej Zieliński
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Philology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: semantic change; Christian Latin; metonymy; Ibero-Romance languages; desmodalization
Summary/Abstract: The aim of this paper is to explore a semantic and discursive trajectory of the verbquerer < QUAERERE ‘to search’, present in Ibero-Romance languages (port., gall.,y esp. querer) except Catalan, in which the verb completely replaced the genuineLatin verb VELLE.

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