Reconstruction:Latin/ranucula
Latin edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From rāna (“frog”) + -ucula (diminutive ending).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
*rānucula f (Proto-Italo-Western-Romance)
- little frog
Declension edit
singular | plural | |
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nominative | */raˈnokla/ | */raˈnoklas/ |
oblique | */raˈnokla/ | */raˈnoklas/ |
Reconstruction notes edit
Competed with, and often displaced, rāna (“frog”). Variant with */ɡ-/ perhaps by analogy with animal names like grāculus (“jackdaw”).
Descendants edit
- Italo-Romance:
- Italian: (g)ranocchia/-o
- North Italian:
- Gallo-Romance:
References edit
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “*ranŭcŭla”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 10: R, page 60
Further information edit
- AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 453: “la rana” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
- ALF: Atlas Linguistique de la France[1] [Linguistic Atlas of France] – map 668: “grenouille” – on lig-tdcge.imag.fr