Reconstruction:Latin/happia

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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[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Frankish *happjā.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

*happia f (Proto-Gallo-Romance)

  1. axe, hatchet

Reconstruction notes[edit]

Attested in French from ca. 1140 (Estoire des Engleis),[1] Occitan from 1200,[2] and Catalan from 1341.[3]

Declension[edit]

singular plural
nominative */ˈhapja/ */ˈhapjas/
oblique */ˈhapja/ */ˈhapjas/

Descendants[edit]

  • Old Catalan: àpia (perhaps from Occitan/Gascon)
  • Old French: hache (see there for further descendants)
  • Gascon: hàpia, hàptia
  • Old Occitan: apcha, abcha, acha, apia
    • Auvergnat: àpia, acha
    • Limousin: apcha
    • Provençal: àpia
    • Vivaro-Alpine: àpia
      • ? Piedmontese: àpia (also would be a normal 'indigenous' outcome)

References[edit]

  • AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 548: “la scure” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
  • ALF: Atlas Linguistique de la France[1] [Linguistic Atlas of France] – map 680: “la hache” – on lig-tdcge.imag.fr
  • Dico d'Òc: 'hache'
  • Olivier, Philippe. 2009. Dictionnaire d'ancien occitan auvergnat: Mauriacois et Sanflorain (1340–1540). Tübingen: Niemeyer. 75.
  1. ^ hache”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
  2. ^ Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “hâppia”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 16: Germanismes: G–R, page 144
  3. ^ “apia” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.}