Reconstruction:Latin/plovere

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

From or a collateral form of Classical pluere.

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /ˈplɔβere/

Verb edit

*plovere (Proto-Romance)

rain

Reconstruction notes edit

Several descendants reflect */ploˈβere/, with a change in verb class.

The 3SG imperfect is attested once as plovēbat, but this is ambiguous for */ˈplɔβere/ or */ploˈβere/.

Descendants edit

Balkan Romance:
- Aromanian: ploae, ploai
- Romanian: ploua
Italo-Romance:
- Corsican: piova
- Italian: piovere
- Neapolitan: chiòve
- Sicilian: chiòviri
North Italian:
- Gallo-Italic:
  - Ligurian: cêuve
  - Lombard: pieuv
  - Piedmontese: pieuve
- Friulian: plovi
- Ladin: plovei
- Romansch: plover, plouver, plaver
- Venetian: pióvar
Gallo-Romance:
- Franco-Provençal: plôvre, plovêr
- Oïl:
  - Norman: pliôre
  - Old French: plovoir, pluveir; plover
    - French: pleuvoir
  - Walloon: ploure
Occitano-Romance:
- Catalan: ploure
- Gascon: plàver, plòver, plòger, plòir, plever, pleure
- Occitan: plòure (all dialects)
  Auvergnat: pleure
  
  Limousin: pleure
Ibero-Romance:
- Aragonese: pleber
  Ribagorçan: plloure, pllober
- Asturian: llover, ḷḷover, chover (western)
- Leonese: ḷḷover, chovere
- Mirandese: chober
- Old Galician-Portuguese: chover
  - Galician: chover
  - Portuguese: chover (see there for further descendants)
- Spanish: llover
Insular Romance:
- Sardinian:
  Campidanese: prori, proi
  
  Logudorese: proghere, proere, pioghere, pioere
  
  Nuorese: proghere, proere, cioere

References edit

Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “plŭĕre”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 9: Placabilis–Pyxis, page 82