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Reconstruction:Latin/glomiscellus
Latin
Etymology
From glomus, made diminutive with the suffix -scellus, for which cf. *rīvuscellus < rīvus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡlomesˈcɛllos/
Noun
*glomiscellus m (Proto-Italo-Western-Romance)
- ball of yarn, tangle
Related terms
- *glemus
- *glomellus
Descendants
- North Italian:
- Friulian: limiscel, lomiscel
- Ladin: menescel
- Gallo-Italic:
- Emilian: gmisel, misel, gamsel, gumissel
- Ligurian: giumescéllo, lumescéllo, rumescéllo, remescéllo
- Lombard: gramissel, gumissel, gamissel, remissel, guminsel, rumissel, lumiscel
- Piedmontese: grumissel, grumessel, gramissel, mussel, lumissel, limiscé, limsé
- Gallo-Romance:
- Franc-Comtois: gremeché
- Old French: lemoissel
- Middle French: lemuseau, remusseau
- Picard: loinseau
- Occitano-Romance:
- ⇒ Gascon: gusmeret
- >? camushèth
- Occitan: glomisel, gusmet
- Limousin: gusseu
- ⇒ Gascon: gusmeret
References
- Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911), “*glomiscellum”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 283
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “*glŏmĭscĕllum”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 4: G H I, page 162