Reconstruction:Latin/fangus

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

Of Germanic origin.

1. Possibly from Frankish, from Proto-Germanic *fanją (“swamp, fen”). Compare Dutch veen and English fen.
2. Alternatively from Gothic [Term?] (“mud”), from Proto-Germanic *fangō (“mud, swamp”), ultimately related to the option above. Compare German feucht, Dutch vocht, Old English fūht.

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Noun

*fangus m or *fanga f or *fania f

1. mud

Descendants

• Italian: fango m, fanga f
• Old French: fanc m, fange f
  • Middle French: fange f
    • French: fange
• Walloon: fanie, fagne f
  • → French: fagne
• Occitan:

  Provençal: fanh, fanc, fanga

  Old Gascon: fanha

• Catalan: fang m
  • → Spanish: fango
• →? Albanian: fëng／fang m (“infertile land”)

Further reading

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “fani”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 15/2: Germanismes: Bu–F, page 108
• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 849: “il fango” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
• ALF: Atlas Linguistique de la France^[1] [Linguistic Atlas of France] – map 154: “boue” – on lig-tdcge.imag.fr