globellum
Latin edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From globulus + -lus or globus + -ellus. Likely influenced in its semantics by glomus (“ball of yarn”, cf. especially its diminutive *glomellus).
Attested- albeit as a hypothetical form- by Isidore in the passage quoted below, where he discusses the origin of lubellum. He apparently cites both forms with the ending -um, despite the masculine gender suggested by his own etymology.
Other manuscripts of Isidore's work have iubellum or gubellum (⟨g⟩ = [d͡ʒ]?) instead of lubellum, reflecting various palatalized outcomes of initial Latin /ɡl-/, continued in some of the Iberian descendants. The form lubellum is corroborated by the Liber Glossarum, published not long after Isidore's death.[1]
Noun edit
globellum ? (Late Latin)
- little ball (? presumably)
- c. 600–625 CE, Isidore, Etymologiae:
- Lubellum corrupte a globo dictum per diminutionem, quasi globellum.
- Lubellum is incorrectly used as a diminutive from globus, as if it were globellum.
Descendants edit
- Gallo-Romance:
- Old Occitan: globel
- Ibero-Romance:
References edit
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “globellus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 4: G H I, page 157
- ^ Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1985) “ovillo”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volumes IV (Me–Re), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 327