Reconstruction:Latin/fagina
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Latin
Etymology
Ellipsis of mūstēla *fāgīna (literally “beech weasel”), from an adjective *fāgīnus (“beechen”) from fāgus (“beech”) + -īnus, for which compare fāginus (“beechen”).
Noun
*fāgīna f (Proto-Italo-Western-Romance)
Descendants
- Franco-Provençal: fouéna
- French: fouine
- Friulian: faìne
- → English: foin
- Italian: faina
- Occitano-Romance
- Venetan: fuìna, foìna
References
- faina in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
- “fouine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.