À PROPOS DES NOMS DU RÂTEAU ET DE LA HERSE EN OCCITAN ARANAIS. ÉTUDE DE MICRODIALECTOLOGIE GASCONNE.

This article deals with two designations of agricultural instruments in Aranese Gascon: the rake and the harrow. As expected, to know the names of this type of instruments related to traditional life, we must begin with with Joan Coromines’ research on Aranese. But in this case, we check insufficient data as well as very important gaps, even contradictions. After having carried out numerous dialectological surveys in the Val d’Aran, we can establish the inventory of forms that refer to these utensils and to specify their geographical distribution, which is certainly complex. We count up to a half dozen denominations, some of which do not even appear in Coromines’s work. We are able to make some considerations on the linguistic position of the Aranese languages and on the relations they maintain with the Gascon dialects located on the other side of the political border.