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Reconstruction:Latin/cawa

This Latin entry contains reconstructed words 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

Etymology

Borrowed from Frankish *kawa (“chough, jackdaw”).[1] Likely influenced by or a confluence with a Gaulish *kawā, from Proto-Celtic *kawannos (“owl”).[2]

Pronunciation

Noun

cawa f (genitive cawae); first declension

  1. (Vulgar Latin) species of crow, jackdaw, jay, rook
  2. (Vulgar Latin) barn-owl, owl

Inflection

First declension.

Italo-Western declension of *cawa
Number Singular Plural
nominative *cáwa *cáwę
genitive *cáwę *cawárọ
dative *cáwę *cáwis
accusative-ablative *cáwã *cáwas

Descendants
  • Old French: choe, choue, chave
  • Old Occitan: cau
  • ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *cavesca[3] (diminutive)
    • Old French: [Term?]
      • Middle French: chevece, chevoiche, chavoce
      • → Romanian: ciovicë (Wallachian)
    • Old Occitan: cavesca
      • Catalan: cauèca, cavèca
      • Occitan: cavèca, (Gascon) gavèca
  • ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *cawetta, *cevetta (diminutive, likely influenced by an archaic form of Italian zibetto (“cat-like animal”))

References
  1. Greimas, A.J. (1969), “choe, chave”, in Dictionnaire de l'ancien francais jusq'uau milieu du XIVe siècle (in French), Paris: Larousse, page 113: “francique *kawa”
  2. Matasović, Ranko (2009), “*kawanno-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 196
  3. http://books.google.com/books?id=bYMcAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA187
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