diâblo

Franco-Provençal

Alternative forms

   

diâbllo (ORB serrée) dya̱blou, dya̱ble (Bressan) dyâbyo (Fribourgeois) dyablo (Old Lyonnais) dyablo (Savoyard) djyabló (Valaisan) diaou, djablo (Valdôtain) guiabio, guiablo (Valdôtain) guiaou, iabio (Valdôtain) diàou (Valsoanin)

Etymology

From Latin diabolus.

Noun

diâblo m (plural diâblos) (ORB large)

1. devil

References

• diable in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
• diâbllo 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 805: “il diavolo” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
• ALF: Atlas Linguistique de la France^[1] [Linguistic Atlas of France] – map 403: “le diable” – on lig-tdcge.imag.fr
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “diabolus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 3: D–F, page 63