Reconstruction:Latin/fallire
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Latin
editEtymology
editReassignment of Classical fallere (“to deceive”) to the fourth conjugation.
Pronunciation
editVerb
edit*fallīre (Proto-Romance)
Reconstruction notes
editConjugations such as 3SG */falˈlesket/ (> Portuguese falece) were used to build new infinitives in Ibero-Romance.
Descendants
edit- Italo-Romance:
- Insular Romance:
- Old Sardinian: fallire
- Sardinian: faddire, faddiri (Campidanese)
- Old Sardinian: fallire
- North Italian:
- Old Lombard: fallir
- Gallo-Romance:
- Catalan: fallir
- Franco-Provençal: falyir
- Old French: falir, faillir (see there for further descendants)
- Occitan: falir, falhir
- Ibero-Romance:
References
edit- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “fallĕre”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 3: D–F, page 390