Reconstruction:Latin/cava
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Latin edit
Alternative forms edit
- *cāva, *cawa, *cāwa
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Frankish *kawa (“chough, jackdaw”).[1] Likely influenced by or a confluence with a Gaulish *kawā, from Proto-Celtic *kawannos (“owl”).[2]
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
*cava f (oblique *cavam); first declension (Proto-Italo-Western-Romance)?
Declension edit
singular | plural | |
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nominative | */ˈkaβa/ | */ˈkaβas/ |
oblique | */ˈkaβa/ | */ˈkaβas/ |
Descendants edit
References edit
- ^ Greimas, A.J. (1969) “choe, chave”, in Dictionnaire de l'ancien francais jusq'uau milieu du XIVe siècle (in French), Paris: Larousse, page 113: “francique *kawa”
- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*kawanno-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 196
- ^ http://books.google.com/books?id=bYMcAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA187