Reconstruction:Latin/aurina

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

Etymology

Alteration of Classical ūrīna, likely by analogy with aurum (“gold”) due to the similarity in colour, perhaps also by contamination from preceding determiners (as in illa urina → *ill' aurina).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /au̯ˈrina/

Noun

*aurīna f (Proto-Italo-Western-Romance)

1. urine

Reconstruction notes

The Occitan variant orina is somewhat anomalous (alongside the expected aurina) and might reflect influence from neighbouring Romance varieties with regular monophthongization of /au̯/.

Declension

	singular	plural
nominative	*/au̯ˈrina/	*/au̯ˈrinas/
oblique	*/au̯ˈrina/	*/au̯ˈrinas/

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Corsican: arina
  • Italian: orina
    • → Sardinian: orina
  • Neapolitan: [oˈrynə] (Matera)
  • >? Sicilian: urina
• North Italian:
  • Ligurian: oena
  • Piedmontese: aurina
  • Venetian: orina
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: orina, aurina (Lleida, Tortosa)
  • Old French: orine
  • Occitan: orina, aurina
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Asturian: orina
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: *ourỹa
    • Galician: ouriña, ouriños
    • Portuguese: ourina, orina (/n/ from Latin influence?)
  • Spanish: orina

References

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “ūrīna”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 14: U–Z, page 63