Reconstruction:Latin/ranucula
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This Latin entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence. |
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
From rāna (“frog”) + -ucula (diminutive ending).
Pronunciation
Noun
*rānucula f (Proto-Italo-Western-Romance)
- little frog
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | */raˈnokla/ | */raˈnoklas/ |
| oblique | */raˈnokla/ | */raˈnoklas/ |
Reconstruction notes
Competed with, and often displaced, rāna (“frog”). Variant with */ɡ-/ perhaps by analogy with animal names like grāculus (“jackdaw”).
Descendants
- Italo-Romance:
- Italian: ranocchio, ranocchia, granocchio, granocchia (Tuscan, colloquial)
- North Italian:
- Rheto-Romance:
- Romansch: rangla
- Gallo-Romance:
- Old Catalan: granolla
- Franco-Provençal: (g)renolye
- Old French: renoille, regnoulle, reinoille, renoulle, reneille (suffix substitution, as if *rānicula), grenoille, grignoille
- Middle French: renouille, grenouille, guernouille
- French: grenouille
- Middle French: renouille, grenouille, guernouille
- Gascon: graulha
- Old Occitan: granolha, granhola
- Occitan: granolha
References
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “*ranŭcŭla”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 10: R, page 60
Further information
- AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz – map 453: “la rana” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
- ALF: Atlas Linguistique de la France – map 668: “grenouille” – on lig-tdcge.imag.fr