Reconstruction:Latin/brasa

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

Uncertain. Perhaps from a pre-latin substrate or from Proto-West Germanic *brasa, from a Proto-Germanic root related to *brewwaną (“to boil, seethe, brew”).[1] However, compare Proto-Indo-European *bʰres- (“to crack, break, burst”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): (Proto-Romance) /ˈbrasa/

Noun

*brasa f (oblique *brasam); first declension

ember

Descendants

Italo-Romance:
- Neapolitan: vrasa, vraja
- Sicilian:
  Calabrian: vrasa
Padanian: (some possibly via *brasea)
- Emilian: brèsa, brasa ⇒ brès
- Ligurian: brâxa
- Lombard: brasa, bras
- Piedmontese: brasa, brèsa, braxa
- Romagnol: bréxa, bréixa, bräixa ⇒ bréx
- Venetian: braxa, bras
Northern Gallo-Romance:
- Franco-Provençal: brâsa
  Bressan: brôja
  Fribourgeois: brâja
- Old French: breze
  - Middle French: bresze
    - French: braise
- Picard: bresse
Southern Gallo-Romance:
- Aragonese: brasa
- Catalan: brasa
- Occitan: brasa
Ibero-Romance:
- Asturian: brasa
- Galician: brasa
- Portuguese: brasa
- Spanish: brasa
⇒ Vulgar Latin: *brasea:
- Italian: brace, bracia, bragia (or from Gallo-Italic)
  - →? Neapolitan: vrascia
  - →? Sicilian: bracia, bragia
- Walloon: brèje
⇒ Vulgar Latin: *brasica:
- Lombard: brasca
  - → French: brasque
- Piedmontese: brasca

References

Joan Coromines; José A. Pascual (1983–1991), “brasa”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN

[1] Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN