Reconstruction:Latin/garra

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Reconstruction:Latin/garra

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

Borrowed from Gaulish *garrā, from Proto-Celtic *garros (“shank, leg calf”).[1]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡarra/

Noun

*garra f (genitive *garrae); first declension

1. shank, leg calf

Inflection

First declension.

Italo-Western declension of *garra
Number	Singular	Plural
nominative	*gárra	*gárrę
genitive	*gárrę	*garrárọ
dative	*gárrę	*gárris
accusative-ablative	*gárrã	*gárras

Descendants

• Padanian:
  • ⇒ Emilian: garèt (“heel”)
  • ⇒ Ligurian: garon (“heel”)
  • ⇒ Lombard: garon (“heel”)
  • ⇒ Piedmontese: garon, garèt (“heel”)
  • ⇒ Romagnol: garèt (“heel”)
• Northern Gallo-Romance:
  • Old French: gare
    • French: gare, jarre (dialectical)
    • ⇒ Old French: garet, garete, garret, jaret (diminutive)
      • Middle French: jarret
        • French: jarret
      • ⇒ Old French: gareter, garter, gartier, garretier, jartier
        • Middle French: jartier, garretier, jarretier
          • French: jarretière
        • → Middle English: garter, gartere, gartier, gartour
          • English: garter
• Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Aragonese: garra ⇒ garrón (“heel”)
  • Catalan: garra
  • Occitan: garra
• Ibero-Romance:
  • >? Spanish: garra
    • → Sardinian: carroni

References

1. Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 207