Reconstruction:Latin/vespertillum
Latin
editEtymology
editFrom vespertiliō + -lum.
Pronunciation
editNoun
edit*vespertillum m (Proto-Italo-Western-Romance)
- bat (flying animal)
Declension
editsingular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | */βesperˈtellos/ | */βesperˈtelli/ |
oblique | */βesperˈtellu/ | */βesperˈtellos/ |
Reconstruction notes
editThere occurred rampant analogy with nouns such as pellis, barba, spīritus, strix, vulpēs: 'hide, beard, spirit, screech-owl, fox'.
Descendants
edit- Italo-Romance:
- Italian: vipistrello, vispistrello (archaic), pipistrello (→ French: pipistrelle)
- Tuscany: pripistello, primpistello, pilistrello, pilustrello, pellistrello, papastrello
- Marche: spiridillo, spiriticolo
- Italian: vipistrello, vispistrello (archaic), pipistrello (→ French: pipistrelle)
- North Italian:
- Emilian: palpastrel, parpastrel, barbastel, balbastrel, barbastjé
- Friulian: barbastin, barbastrin
- Istriot: barbastil
- Romagnol: balbastrel
- Venetian: barbastrello, barbasteo (archaic), barbastrijo, barbastréjo
- Occitano-Romance:
- Catalan: barbastella
- → French: barbastelle
- Catalan: barbastella
References
edit- Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911) “vĕspĕrtilio”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 708
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “vespertilio”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 14: U–Z, page 348