Reconstruction:Latin/tirare
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Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Uncertain. Only attested in the Romance languages. Joan Coromines viewed this word as “one of the obscurest matters in neo-Latin etymology, so much so as to be considered insoluble”.[1] Among the proposed etyma are:
- Proto-Germanic *tir-, *teraną (“to tear, tear away, rip or snatch off, pull violently, tug”).
- Vulgar Latin *(mar)tyrāre, from Ancient Greek μάρτυς (mártus).[2]
- Ancient Greek τείρω (teírō, “to wear out; rub”).[3]
- Vulgar Latin *trare (“drag”), from Latin trahere (or simply the latter).[4]
- Old Persian *tīr (“arrow”); cf. the modern تیر.[5]
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
*tīrāre (Proto-Italo-Western-Romance)
Descendants[edit]
- Italo-Romance:
- Padanian:
- Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance: