Reconstruction:Latin/admortire
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Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From ad- + mort(u)us (“dead”) + -īre (verb-forming suffix).
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
*admortīre (Proto-Romance)
Reconstruction notes[edit]
3SG */ammorˈtesket/ > Romanian amorțește, Portuguese amortece.
Conjugations such as the above were used to build new infinitives in Sardinian and Ibero-Romance.
Derived terms[edit]
- *admorticīre
- Catalan: esmorteir (with substitution of prefix)
Descendants[edit]
- Balkan Romance:
- Italo-Romance:
- Italian: ammortire
- Insular Romance:
- ⇒ Sardinian: ammustreschere
- Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
- ⇒ Portuguese: amortecer
- Old Spanish: amortir ⇒ amortesçer
- Spanish: amortecer
References[edit]
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “*admortīre”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 24: Refonte A–Aorte, page 175