Reconstruction:Latin/fagina

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 edit

Etymology edit

Clipping of mūstēla *fāgīna (literally “beech weasel”), from an adjective *fāgīnus (“beechen”) from fāgus (“beech”) +‎ -īnus, for which compare fāginus (“beechen”).

Noun edit

*fāgīna f

beech marten

Descendants edit

French: fouine
- → English: foin
Italian: faina
Occitano-Romance
- Catalan: fagina
- Occitan: faïna
Friulian: faìne
Venetian: fuìna, foìna
West Iberian
- Aragonese: fuina
- Old Galician-Portuguese:
  - Galician: fuiña
  - Portuguese: fuinha
- Spanish: fuina

References edit

faina in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
“fouine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.