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Etymological Dictionary of Basque - Cryptm.org

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370 R. L. Trask<br />

xaxpiki (G?) n. ‘baby born two months premature’. + -ki [**{3}] NFS.<br />

ze- Interrogative stem.<br />

OUO. This is one <strong>of</strong> the two interrogative stems <strong>of</strong> the language, the other being no-. L<br />

and LN exhibit a variant form zo- in certain formations only, esp. when an /n/ follows;<br />

this perhaps represents contamination from no- (M. 1961a: 82).<br />

zelan (B) adv. ‘how?’ **** + -lan AdvFS (see -la [2]).<br />

ezelan (B) **** + e- [2] indefinite.<br />

ezelango (B), ezelako (B) ****<br />

zelan-alango (B) n. ‘mediocre thing’. ****<br />

zelanbait (B), zelanbaist (B) ****<br />

zelanbaitako (B), zelanbaistako (B) n. ****<br />

zelan dan (B) ****<br />

zelan edo alan (B) ****<br />

zelango (B), zelako (B) adjvl. ****<br />

zelangura (B), zelan-nai (B) ****<br />

zelanik (B) ****<br />

zer [tapped /r/] (c.), ze (B G HN Z) pron. ‘what?’ Possibly contains formative *-r. Short<br />

form by P25. Some varieties have specialized the short form for use in certain<br />

circumstances, <strong>of</strong>ten esp. before a noun or before a following consonant in<br />

inflected forms; see A. (1905: s.v. ze) for details. This item takes case-endings<br />

normally, except that it requires -ta- indef. {(not in The <strong>Dictionary</strong>)} in the local<br />

cases, as in Loc. zertan ‘in what?’ [ADD SPECIAL USES LIKE ‘thingy’]<br />

ezer [tapped /r/] (c.) pron. ‘anything’ (in negatives and questions: NPI) 15th cent.<br />

+ e- [2] indefinite. See deus.<br />

zein (c. exc. Z), zeiñ (Z), zeñ (B), zoin (LN R), zuin (Z), zuiñ (Z), zuñ (Z) det.<br />

(prp.) ‘which?’. 1545. **** From *zeren, the Gen. <strong>of</strong> zer (which still exists), +<br />

-en {[1]} Gen. CS, by contraction (M. 1961a: 66). [MORE IN FHV, AZKUE]<br />

zein baino zein (B G HN L) ****<br />

zeinbat (B), zenbat (**), zonbat (LN), zumát (Z), zomat (R S) **** ‘how<br />

much?’, ‘how many?’ ****<br />

zeinbana (**), zenbana (**) det., pron. ‘how many each?, how many<br />

apiece?’<br />

zeinbatasun (old B), zenbatasun (G?) n. ‘number, quantity’. + -tasun<br />

NFS (see -tar). Neologism coined by Mogel; no other existence.<br />

zeinbatere (LN) ****<br />

zeinbatu (B), zenbatu (**), zenbatetu (G?) vt. ‘count’. ****<br />

zenbakarren (**) ****<br />

zenbatnahi (Duv.) ****

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