Reconstruction:Latin/ecce ille
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Latin
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From eccillum, an expression meaning 'there he is', changed into a regular determiner. Alternately a separate formation from ecce + ille.
Determiner
[edit]*ecce ille m (feminine *ecce illa, neuter *ecce illum) (Proto-Gallo-Romance)
Reconstruction notes
[edit]Subsequently, /-e/ > /-i/, which had metaphonic effects in Old French (> cil). That this change followed the common Proto-Gallo-Roman period, if one can be assumed, is suggested by comparison with the Catalan and Occitan outcomes of *eccum ille, where the stressed vowel underwent no such raising.
See also
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Franco-Provençal: celi, cela, celos, celes, celor
- Old French: cil (masculine singular and plural nominative case, variants in Picard Old French: chil or chiu), cel (Picard: chel), ceus (Picard: chiaus, Eastern Old French: ciaus), celes (Picard: chele), celui (Picard: chelui)