Reconstruction:Latin/illurum
Latin
editEtymology
editModification of Classical Latin illōrum, with the new /ˈu/ perhaps taken from 'vulgar' forms like illūi (“to him”) or illūius (“his”).[1]
Pronunciation
editDeterminer
edit*illūrum (Proto-Western-Romance) (?)
Reconstruction notes
editNo final vowel can be reconstructed. It may have been lost early on due to this being a function word. Alternatively, Navarro-Aragonese borrowed the term from pre-literary Catalan, in which case this reconstruction belongs to the Proto-Gallo-Romance level, where loss of the final vowel is regular.
Descendants
edit- Navarro-Aragonese: lur
- → Old Spanish: lur (certain texts)
- Old Catalan: lur
- Catalan: llur (literary)
- Old Occitan: lur
- Occitan: lur (regional)
References
edit- ^ Loporcaro, Michele. 2002. Il pronome loro nell'Italia centro-meridionale e la storie del sistema pronominale romanzo. Vox Romanica 61. 63–64.