Reconstruction:Latin/medullum

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 edit

Etymology edit

Formed analogically from medulla, which was apparently reinterpreted as a collective neuter plural. Compare the attested Medullum.

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /meˈdʊllu/

Noun edit

*medullum n (pl *medulla) (Proto-Romance)

marrow

Descendants edit

Balkan Romance:
- Aromanian: midulj n
Italo-Romance:
- Italian: midollo, midolla
  Tuscan: mirollo, merollo, midollo
- Neapolitan: medullo, merullo, metullo
Insular Romance:
- Sardinian: maodhu, maoddu, miuddu, meuddu, meduddu
North Italian:
- Ligurian: mòulo, miòlo
- Lombard: mòl, miòl
Gallo-Romance:
- Old Catalan: mooll, mohoyl, mool, moyl
  - Catalan: moll
- Gascon: mesoth, medoth, moth
- Old Occitan: mezol
  - Languedocien: mesolh
Ibero-Romance:
- Aragonese: miollo, megollo
- Asturian: megollu, migollu, miollu
- Old Galician-Portuguese: meolo
  - Galician: miolo
  - Portuguese: miolo
- Spanish: meollo

References edit

Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “medulla”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 6/1: Mabile–Mephitis, page 638