Reconstruction:Latin/admortire

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 ad- +‎ mort(u)us (“dead”) +‎ -īre (verb-forming suffix).

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /ammorˈtire/

Verb edit

*admortīre (Proto-Romance)

deaden, make numb

Reconstruction notes edit

3SG */ammorˈtesket/ > Romanian amorțește, Portuguese amortece.

Conjugations such as the above were used to build new infinitives in Sardinian and Ibero-Romance.

Derived terms edit

*admorticīre
- Catalan: esmorteir (with substitution of prefix)

Descendants edit

Balkan Romance:
- Aromanian: amurtsãri
- Romanian: amorți
Italo-Romance:
- Italian: ammortire
Insular Romance:
- ⇒ Sardinian: ammustreschere
Gallo-Romance:
- Franco-Provençal: amortir
- Old French: amortir
  - French: amortir
  - → Middle English: amortisen (via the Old Fr. stem amortiss-)
    - English: amortize
- Occitan: amortir
Ibero-Romance:
- ⇒ Portuguese: amortecer
- Old Spanish: amortir ⇒ amortesçer
  - Spanish: amortecer

References edit

Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “*admortīre”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 24: Refonte A–Aorte, page 175