Reconstruction:Latin/fagina

This Latin entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Latin

Etymology

Clipping of mūstēla *fāgīna (literally “beech weasel”), from an adjective *fāgīnus (“beechen”) from fāgus (“beech”) +‎ -īnus, for which compare fāginus (“beechen”).

Noun

*fāgīna f

1. beech marten

Descendants

• French: fouine
  • → English: foin
• Italian: faina
• Occitano-Romance
  • Catalan: fagina
  • Occitan: faïna
• Friulian: faìne
• Venetian: fuìna, foìna
• West Iberian
  • Aragonese: fuina
  • Old Galician-Portuguese:
    • Galician: fuiña
    • Portuguese: fuinha
  • Spanish: fuina

References

• faina in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
• “fouine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.