Reconstruction:Latin/glaciarium
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From glaciēs (“ice”) + -ārium.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
*glaciārium (Proto-Western-Romance)
Reconstruction notes edit
The descendants form a continuous belt along the Alps.[1]
Descendants edit
- Franco-Provençal: gllaciér, lyassé, yèchi; glacier
- → French: glacier (see there for further descendants)
- Romansch: glatscher
References edit
- “glatscher”, in Dicziunari Rumantsch Grischun (in German)
- ^ AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 426a: “il ghiacciaio” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it