History of the derivatives and compounds of the adverb suso

Abstract

The present work explores the history of suso, a locative adverb from which originated extraordinary derived and compound formations such as the adjectives susero and susano, the adverbs asuso and desuso, and even the noun sursuncorda or the adjective susodicho. Although today they can seem archaic, these formations had remarkable vitality during previous stages of the history of the language, as shown by academic corpus and medieval texts, as well as peninsular toponymy, testimonies we will use to study the transformations, the adjectival suffixes and prepositional prefixes that they accepted, and the contexts in which they reached greater relevance.