Reconstruction:Latin/coactitare
Latin
editPronunciation
editVerb
edit*coactitāre (Proto-Gallo-Romance)
- Alternative form of *coacticāre (“to press”) (cf. *volvitāre~*volvicāre)
Reconstruction notes
editThe initial /kw-/ is suggested by the absence, in northern Occitan, of any variant showing palatalization of /k/, as well as parallelism with the northern outcomes of *coacticāre. The absence of /w/ from Gascon, as opposed to its survival in for instance /ˈkwate/ < Latin quattuor, would likely be due to its being found in a pretonic syllable (cf. /kaˈtɔrze/ < quattuordecim).
An original */-kt-/ (> */jt/) would be expected to yield */t͡ʃ/ in various regions, but collision with the following */t/ may have depalatalized it.
Descendants
editReferences
edit- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “*coactitare”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 2: C Q K, page 814