assalio

Latin

Alternative forms

• adsaliō

Etymology

From ad- +‎ saliō, replacing the Classical equivalent assiliō (the latter showing historical reduction of unstressed /a/). Attested from the time of the Lex Salica onwards.

Verb

assaliō (present infinitive assalīre, perfect active assalīvī, supine assaltum); fourth conjugation (Late Latin)

1. to jump on, attack

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: assalire
• Western Romance: (with freq. extension of /ʎ/ from the 1SG form)
  • Old Catalan: assalir, assallir
  • Old French: assalir, assaillir (see there for further descendants)
  • Old Occitan: assaly, assalhir
    • Occitan: assalir, assalhir
    • → Old Spanish: assalir, asalir (probably)
  • Romansch: assaglir

References

• adsalire in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)