Abstract
Even though there is no sonantic r̥ in Turkish, some Croatian and Serbian reflexes of Turkish loanwords display an r̥. Such examples form two typologically different groups. One of them can be explained by a purely Slavic phonological proportion. The other group, however, can only be characterised in terms of Turkish phonetics, but its full explanation escapes our analyses.
Highlights
It was almost fifty years ago that Stanisław Stachowski presented a group of Turkish (= Tksh.) words with the vowel -ı- whose Serbian1 and Croatian (= SC) reflexes have the consonant -r- at this place (Stachowski 1973: 43sq.)
The question is why and under what circumstances Turkish -ı- was rendered by -r- in Croatian and Serbian
Two changes should be assumed: the Turkish model K-I-S would have in Slavic been extended to sequences in the reverse order: > S-I-K and, modified to S-I-t in [15]
Summary
It was almost fifty years ago that Stanisław Stachowski presented a group of Turkish (= Tksh.) words with the vowel -ı- whose Serbian and Croatian (= SC) reflexes have the consonant -r- at this place (Stachowski 1973: 43sq.). [2] jagrz ‘black or chestnut horse’ < older Tksh. [3] krbla ‘qibla, direction towards the Kaaba’ < Tksh. Kızamık ~ (dial.) kızamak id.; [10] krzil ‘red’ < Tksh. Kızılbaş id.; [11] krzluk ‘virginity’ < older Tksh. Siklet ‘weight; load’; [15] zrt ‘disgusting, disliked’ < Tksh. Two examples for the change of Tksh. Ir- > SC r- are known in anlaut position (Stachowski 1973: 42): [16] rz ‘respect’ < Tksh. The same change can be more frequently observed in the wordmedial position (Stachowski 1973: 40): [18] bazrđan ‘merchant’ < older Tksh. The same change can be more frequently observed in the wordmedial position (Stachowski 1973: 40): [18] bazrđan ‘merchant’ < older Tksh. *bazirgân ~ bezirgân id.; [19] čekrdak ‘(fruit) core with stones’ < Tksh. çekirdek ‘fruit kernel’; [20] lakrdija ‘language, dialect’ < Tksh. lâkırdı ‘talk, chatter, gossip’; [21] pıstrma (? pro: pastrma) ‘dried and spiced beef ’ < Tksh. pastırma id.;
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