Reconstruction:Latin/contigire
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Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From contingere, apparently rebuilt around preterite inflections such as contigit.
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
*contigīre (Proto-Ibero-Romance)
- to happen
Descendants[edit]
- Catalan: acontegir (Valencian)
- ⇒ Navarro-Aragonese: contexer
- Old Galician-Portuguese: [Term?]
- Old Spanish: contir, cuntir ⇒ contesçer
- ⇒ Spanish: acontecer
References[edit]
- Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1984) “acontecer”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volumes I (A–Ca), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 39