< Reconstruction:Latin
Reconstruction:Latin/cawa
Latin
Alternative forms
- cāwa, cava, cāva
Etymology
Borrowed from Frankish *kawa (“chough, jackdaw”).[1] Likely influenced by or a confluence with a Gaulish *kawā, from Proto-Celtic *kawannos (“owl”).[2]
Pronunciation
- (Proto-Romance) IPA(key): /ˈkaβa/
Noun
*cawa f (oblique *cawam); first declension
- species of crow, jackdaw, jay, rook
- barn-owl, owl
Descendants
- Direct reflexes:
- Old French: choe, choue, chave
- Middle French: choe, choue
- → Galician: choia
- → Spanish: chova; choya (dialectal)
- Old Occitan: cau
- Picard: caue, cave
- Old French: choe, choue, chave
- ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *cawesca[3] (diminutive)
- Gallo-Romance:
- Bourbonnais-Berrichon: chuèche
- Old French:
- Middle French: chevece, chevoiche, chavoce
- French: chevêche
- → Romanian: ciovică (Wallachian)
- Middle French: chevece, chevoiche, chavoce
- Occitano-Romance:
- Catalan: cauèca, cavèca
- Old Occitan: cavesca
- Occitan: cavèca (several dialects)
- Gascon: chavèca, gavèca, bavèca
- Occitan: cavèca (several dialects)
- Gallo-Romance:
- ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *cawetta (diminutive, likely influenced by an archaic form of Italian zibetto (“cat-like animal”))
- Dalmatian:
- civet
- Italo-Romance:
- Italian: civetta, ciovetta (dialectal)
- North Italian:
- Friulian: civuite
- Romansch: tschuetta
- Venetian: zovetta
- Gallo-Romance:
- Old French: *chouette, *chavette, suete, suette, çuete
- Middle French: chouete, chüette, chouette
- French: chouette
- Middle French: chouete, chüette, chouette
- Norman: cahouette
- Picard: cavette
- Old French: *chouette, *chavette, suete, suette, çuete
- Occitano-Romance:
- Vivaro-Alpine: civeta
- Dalmatian:
References
- Greimas, A.J. (1969), “choe, chave”, in Dictionnaire de l'ancien francais jusq'uau milieu du XIVe siècle (in French), Paris: Larousse, page 113: “francique *kawa”
- Matasović, Ranko (2009), “*kawanno-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 196
- http://books.google.com/books?id=bYMcAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA187