Reconstruction:Latin/ossamen
Latin
editEtymology
editFrom oss- (“bone”) + -āmen (suffix that took on a collective sense).
Pronunciation
editNoun
edit*ossāmen n (Proto-Romance)
- bones (collectively); set of bones
Descendants
edit- Balkan Romance:
- Romanian: osamă (dialectal)
- Italo-Romance:
- North Italian:
- Occitano-Romance:
- Catalan: ossam
- Ibero-Romance:
- Spanish: osambre
- Insular Romance:
References
edit- Rainer, Franz (2018 October 30) “Patterns and niches in diachronic word formation: the fate of the suffix -MEN from Latin to Romance”, in Morphology, volume 28, Springer Nature B. V., , page 414.