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82 Italian, Rhaeto-Romance, and see also below), I would hazard the suggestion that this word has come from PIRU MAGNU (and a subsequent reference to Wartburg reveals that he is also of the same opinion), with treatment of the first vowel as if in a closed syllable (cf. nerprun < NIGRU PRUNU, saumure < SALE MURIA, Fourvière < FORU VETERE, maudire < MALE DICERE, and Engl. verdict, ME verdit, from VERE DICTU; cf. also the development of persil, verglas, from *PETROSILIU, *VITROGLACIE). The occurrence of par- beside per- is not significant, as fluctuation between er and ar is a regular feature of Old French (cf. perdon/pardon, cercelle/sarcelle, herseler/harceler). g) The situation in Provençal is largely similar to that in French, but with slight variations, the first being that the names of the trees can be formed either with the masc. -ARIU or the fem. -ARIA according to the area. Both pom and poma (now poum and poumo) are found for ‘apple’, likewise with regional distribution, and poumo also has the senses ‘knob’, ‘ball’, ‘head of cabbage’ etc., like Fr. pomme; in some areas mela (melo) is also found. MELU also survives in the modern forms mióugrano, mi(e)lgrano, mi(eu)grano, meigrano, mingrano (old melgrana, milgrana) ‘pomegranate’, seemingly formed like It. melograno, with the ending of melagrana; note the form milgrano with assimilation to MILLE GRANA, like the Fr. migraine. A similar compound is melapio ‘lady apple’. Unlike French, Provençal also has the masc. persec/p(r)essec for ‘peach’, beside the fem. persega/p(r)essega; this may be because the words follow the model of pom/poma, echoing the original forms POMUM PERSICUM and POMA PERSICA. In other cases the same kind of feminine forms are found as in French: pera, pruna, mora (with a modern (a)mouro), cer(i)eisa/cer(i)eira, sorba/serba, cornha, poma massana, mesp(o)la/nesp(o)la, fraga/fraia. Similarly the modern patois have other forms like the French ones: amarello, (a)grioto, grenado (gra-), grousello, frambueso (from the French, cf. also freiso beside frago/fraio), courniolo 82
83 83 beside cuerno/corgno, prunello and masc. prunèu, dameisino and damass-eto/-oto (also an old (d)avaissa, now abaisso, given in the DCELC s.v. ciruela, showing the same accentuation as OFr. davoisne), limo and limouno (for the ‘orange’ an old auranja is recorded, but the usual word now is the masc. arange). For the ‘jujube’ the modern forms are jousibo, zuzubo and also gijoulo, ginjourlo etc., these seemingly from Italian; however, some dialects by confusion use the word guindoulo, which, like guindoul, guindo, guino, guigno, corresponds to the Fr. guigne and is used variously to mean ‘sour cherry’, ‘sweet cherry’ or ‘sloe’. There are also the same original Latin feminines mandola/ame(n)la/amenda etc., avelana (also masc. avelan), castanha, oliva; note also that the modern dialects have the characterized feminine forms nogo/noio beside nose (old notz) ‘walnut’, as well as the diminutives nouseto, nougueto, nousiho ‘little nut’, and that eusino, corresponding to OIt. elcina, has the meaning ‘acorn’ as well as ‘holm-oak’. Paralleling the Fr. coing, Provençal has the masc. coudoun(h), but there is also a fem. coudou(g)no, which denotes a bigger fruit. Other masculines, outside our scope, are aubricot/ambricot and damas (‘a kind of grape’; cf. pruno de Damas for ‘damson’); there is also perus for ‘a kind of pear’, which corresponds to WPied. prüs (Rohlfs, §382), and seemingly to OFriul. piruç. h) Catalan follows Provençal, with the fruits mostly ending in -a, and the trees formed with -ARIU (dialectal) or -ARIA (so pomer, pomera). Pom is found in the sense of ‘apple’ as well as ‘pome’, ‘pommel’ etc., beside the standard poma (both forms are found in the “Seville Bible”, No. 43 in Russell-Gebbett’s anthology, and we also find poma maçana cited by Moll), and Meyer-Lübke (Gram.) quotes mela; magrana, malagrana, mangrana ‘pomegranate’ seem to reflect an earlier *me(l)grana, like the Provençal forms (note also the toponym Marmellar, DCELC, reflecting MELIMELU, cf. Sp. Ptg.; melocotó is taken from Spanish). Catalan also follows Provençal in having the
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5 5 stages of the language. (Incide
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7 7 preserved in Italian, such as t
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9 9 ‘well’, CAPILLUM ‘hair’
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etween the 2nd and 4th declensions)
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13 13 changing their declension in
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15 15 Another popular development w
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une formation hybride à cheval sur
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19 19 with acc. pl. LUSTROS, in ins
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21 21 OSSUUM/OSSUORUM/OSSORUM/OSSAR
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23 23 inscription (Bourciez, §218c
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25 25 PRAESTIGIUM, INFAMIUM, BLASPH
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27 27 Ling. Lat., but Nyrop quotes
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29 29 singular in early times), SPI
Page 31 and 32: 31 31 substantia consumitur” (Ita
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Page 35 and 36: 35 35 in Chir.) as ‘leaves’? Th
Page 37 and 38: 37 37 loanwords and verbal nouns; i
Page 39 and 40: 39 39 singulars are felt to be the
Page 41 and 42: 41 41 language, producing a situati
Page 43 and 44: 43 43 c) Passing now to French, we
Page 45 and 46: 45 45 separated from braç, as are
Page 47 and 48: 47 47 a modern formation). Old Ital
Page 49 and 50: 49 49 ‘powder horns’, ‘corner
Page 51 and 52: 51 51 also represent Latin -NIA (cf
Page 53 and 54: 53 53 ‘heels’ gives the Rumania
Page 55 and 56: 55 55 böila, Eng. böglia, Surs. b
Page 57 and 58: 57 57 de Dial. Esp., p. 346). But b
Page 59 and 60: 59 59 j) Traces of other old neuter
Page 61 and 62: 61 61 uova, with dial. ove or ovi f
Page 63 and 64: 63 63 ‘kneading-trough’, in the
Page 65 and 66: 65 65 8. Numerals and pronominal ad
Page 67 and 68: 67 67 mil and modern mille (masc.).
Page 69 and 70: 69 69 OFr. nu(l)s, nule, Prov. nuls
Page 71 and 72: 71 71 find the meaning ‘leaf’,
Page 73 and 74: 73 73 in the areas which use -i for
Page 75 and 76: 75 75 c) Let us now look at the sit
Page 77 and 78: 77 77 turn to the dialects to find
Page 79 and 80: 79 79 matching these also ulivo/uli
Page 81: 81 81 corme), corne (OFr. cornelle)
Page 85 and 86: 85 85 cerezal ‘cherry orchard’,
Page 87 and 88: 87 87 ‘holm-oak’ tree, but Arag
Page 89 and 90: 89 89 péšego), with another varie
Page 91 and 92: 91 91 the Piedmontese form la figa
Page 93 and 94: 93 93 assisted by the feminine noun
Page 95 and 96: 95 95 (oak), roveto (bramble), vign
Page 97 and 98: 97 97 r) The position in Catalan is
Page 99 and 100: 99 99 native to the area all right,
Page 101 and 102: 101 101 but the fortuitous similari
Page 103 and 104: 103 103 trufa from French, Ptg. tub
Page 105 and 106: 105 105 Italian plurals in -ora and
Page 107 and 108: 107 107 account for Prov. nos (besi
Page 109 and 110: 109 109 Italian as the Latinism fri
Page 111 and 112: 111 111 Sard. pettorale. PIGNORA is
Page 113 and 114: 113 113 FUNDUS, ARCUS, COLFUS, NODU
Page 115 and 116: 115 115 from a late Greek form kól
Page 117 and 118: 117 117 like cambiora, digiunora, f
Page 119 and 120: 119 119 down by purely popular tran
Page 121 and 122: 121 121 examples I have given above
Page 123 and 124: 123 123 note that -egl- > -agl- is
Page 125 and 126: 125 125 dictionary ascribes the Ita
Page 127 and 128: 127 127 with the same meaning. This
Page 129 and 130: 129 129 ‘brotherhood’, and the
Page 131 and 132: 131 131 Vegl. fyasta (the Rum. fest
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133 133 ‘salary’, and in these
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135 135 legenda, Fr. (learned) lég
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137 137 the widespread forms corres
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139 139 morceau, Engl. bit), It. bo
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141 141 languages the first consona
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143 143 spread to the Iberian Penin
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145 145 Rhaeto-Romance. From VINCUL
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147 147 VISCUM ‘mistletoe’. Fro
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149 149 are also forms without clas
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151 151 also lists Rum. par as “n
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153 153 of ACUS ‘needles’, wher
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155 155 become a singular meaning
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157 157 From LINTEA ‘linen cloths
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159 159 esquírola ‘ditto’. Fro
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161 161 Rum. răza is ‘scrape’,
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163 163 combination of meanings; in
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165 165 has at the same time become
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167 167 üj ‘grape’. Similarly
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169 169 feminines; examples are It.
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171 171 feminine noun which has nei
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173 173 Cat. bolla ‘seal on cloth
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175 175 Lat. VENA. Spanish seems to
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177 177 Heidelberg, 1920; Romanisch
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