Reconstruction:Latin/ranucula

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

Alternative forms

• *grānucula

Etymology

From rāna (“frog”) +‎ -ucula (diminutive ending).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /raˈnokla/

Noun

*rānucula f (Proto-Italo-Western-Romance)

1. little frog

Declension

	singular	plural
nominative	*/raˈnokla/	*/raˈnoklas/
oblique	*/raˈnokla/	*/raˈnoklas/

Reconstruction notes

Competed with, and often displaced, rāna (“frog”). Variant with */ɡ-/ perhaps by analogy with animal names like grāculus (“jackdaw”).

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: ranocchio, ranocchia; granocchio, granocchia (Tuscan, colloquial)
• North Italian:
  • Emilian: ranócc
  • Romagnol: ranòcia, ranòcc
• Rheto-Romance:
  • Romansch: rangla
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Old Catalan: granolla
  • Franco-Provençal: (g)renolye
  • Old French: renoille, regnoulle, reinoille, renoulle; reneille (suffix substitution, as if *rānicula); grenoille, grignoille
    • Middle French: renouille, grenouille, guernouille
      • French: grenouille
  • Gascon: graulha
  • Old Occitan: granolha, granhola
    • Occitan: granolha

References

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “*ranŭcŭla”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 10: R, page 60

Further information

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 453: “la rana” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
• ALF: Atlas Linguistique de la France^[1] [Linguistic Atlas of France] – map 668: “grenouille” – on lig-tdcge.imag.fr