Reconstruction:Latin/brasa

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

Uncertain. Perhaps from a pre-latin substrate or from Proto-West Germanic *brasa, from a Proto-Germanic root related to *brewwaną (“to boil, seethe, brew”). However, compare Proto-Indo-European *bʰres- (“to crack, break, burst”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbrasa/

Noun

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

1. ember

Declension

	singular	plural
nominative	*/ˈbrasa/	*/ˈbrasas/
oblique	*/ˈbrasa/	*/ˈbrasas/

Derived terms

• *brasea:
  • Italian: brace, bracia, bragia (or from Gallo-Italic)
    • →? Neapolitan: vrascia
    • →? Sicilian: bracia, bragia
  • Walloon: brèje
• *brasica
  • Lombard: brasca
    • → French: brasque
  • Piedmontese: brasca

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Neapolitan: vrasa, vraja
  • Sicilian:

    Calabrian: vrasa

• North Italian: (some possibly via *brasea)
  • Gallo-Italic:
    • Emilian: brèsa, brasa ⇒ brès
    • Ligurian: brâxa
    • Lombard: brasa, bras
    • Piedmontese: brasa, brèsa, braxa
    • Romagnol: bréxa, bréixa, bräixa ⇒ bréx
  • Venetian: braxa, bras
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: brasa
  • Franco-Provençal: brâsa

    Bressan: brôja

    Fribourgeois: brâja

  • Old French: breze
    • Middle French: bresze
      • French: braise
    • Picard: bresse
  • Occitan: brasa
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Aragonese: brasa
  • Asturian: brasa
  • Galician: brasa
  • Portuguese: brasa
  • Spanish: brasa

References

• Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983–1991) “brasa”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos