Reconstruction:Latin/sevandilia
Latin
editEtymology
editOf pre-Roman origin. Perhaps borrowed from a Proto-Basque *seguandelea, metathesis of *suge-andere-a (“female snake”), whence Basque suge-kandera ~ suge-kandela (“small lizard”, Lapurdian and Roncalese dialects).
A purely Latin etymology *serpenticula has also been suggested, but this runs into a number of phonetic impossibilities.
Pronunciation
editNoun
edit*sevandīlia f (plural *sevandīliās) (Proto-Ibero-Romance)
Descendants
edit- Aragonese: sabandilla
- Portuguese: sevandilha (archaic), sevandija (crossed with the Spanish word)
- Old Spanish: savandija
- Spanish: sabandija, (regional forms:) sarbandija, sarabandija
References
edit- Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983) “sabandija”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volumes V (Ri–X), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 105