Reconstruction:Latin/cominitiare

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

From com- +‎ initiāre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /komenˈt͡sʲare/

Verb

*cominitiāre (Proto-Italo-Western-Romance)

1. begin, undertake

Reconstruction notes

The earliest attested descendant is Old French (10th c. CE, Sermon sur Jonah).

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: cominciare
  • Neapolitan: commenzare
  • Sicilian: cuminciari, cuminzari
• North Italian:
  • Gallo-Italic:
    • Emilian: cminzèr
    • Romagnol: cmẽnzê
  • Friulian: començâ
  • Romansch: cumanzar, scumanzar (Surmiran); cumanzer (Puter)
  • Venetian: scuminsiar, scuminçiar, scomensar, scominçiar, scomençar, scominsiar
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: començar
  • Franco-Provençal: comenciér
  • Old French: comencier, comenchier
    • Middle French: commencer
      • French: commencer (see there for further descendants)
    • Norman: c'menchier, c'menchi, quémenchi
    • Picard: cmincher
    • Walloon: kimincî
    • → Middle English: commencen
      • English: commence
  • Occitan: començar
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Aragonese: comenzar
  • Asturian: comenzar
  • Extremaduran: comincial
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: começar
    • Galician: comezar
    • Portuguese: começar
  • Old Spanish: començar
    • Spanish: comenzar (see there for further descendants)

References

• Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1984) “comenzar”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volumes II (Ce–F), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 157
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “comĭnĭtiare”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 20: Autres langues, page 944