agouelyon

Franco-Provençal

Alternative forms

adjuyan, euillon (Beaujolais) aivion (Bressan) eulhon (Dauphinois) onlyon, oulyon (Fribourgeois) aïlloun (Forézien) avoulyon (Genevois) avoellan (Savoyard) avouilyon (Valaisan)

Etymology

From Early Medieval Latin aculeōnem.

Noun

agouelyon m (plural agouelyons)

1. goad (for livestock)
2. spur (for horses)
3. stinger (of bees, etc)
4. stimulus

Notes

⟨gou⟩ is an orthographic compromise between dialects with [ɡ] or [ɡw] and dialects with [w], [v], or [vw].

References

• agouelyon in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

Further information

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 1153: “il pungiglione” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “*acūleo”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 24: Refonte A–Aorte, page 123