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Reconstruction:Latin/illurum
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Latin
Etymology
Modification of Classical Latin illōrum, with the new /ˈu/ perhaps taken from 'vulgar' forms like illui (“to him”) or illuius (“his”).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈlur/
Determiner
*illūrum (Proto-Western-Romance)
- them, their third-person plural genitive-dative
Reconstruction notes
No final vowel can be reconstructed. It may have been lost early on due to this being a function word. Alternatively, Navarro-Aragonese borrowed the term from pre-literary Catalan, in which case this reconstruction belongs to the Proto-Gallo-Romance level.
Descendants
- Navarro-Aragonese: lur
- → Old Spanish: lur (certain texts)
- Old Catalan: lur
- Catalan: llur (literary)
- Old Occitan: lur
- Occitan: lur (regional)
References
- Loporcaro, Michele. 2002. Il pronome loro nell'Italia centro-meridionale e la storie del sistema pronominale romanzo. Vox Romanica 61. 63–64.