Reconstruction:Latin/piliare
Latin
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editVerb
edit*pīliāre (Proto-Italo-Western-Romance)
- to take
Reconstruction notes
editDespite the formal resemblance, the French piller (“to plunder”) does not belong to this word-family.
Descendants
edit- Italo-Romance:
- Italian: pigliare
- Neapolitan: pegliare, pigliare
- Padanian:
- Gallo-Romance:
References
edit- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “*pīliare”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 8: Patavia–Pix, page 494