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Reconstruction:Latin/soliculum
Latin
Etymology
From sōl + -culus (diminutive ending).
Pronunciation
- (Proto-Italo-Western-Romance) IPA(key): /soˈleklu/
Noun
*sōliculum m (nominative singular *sōliculus)
- sun
Descendants
- Italo-Romance:
- Italian: solecchio
- North Italian:
- Friulian: soreli
- Ladin: surëdl
- Piedmontese: soleil, solil
- Romansch:
- Puter: sulagl
- Surmiran: suglegl
- Sursilvan, Sutsilvan: sulegl
- Vallader: sulai
- Gallo-Romance:
- Franco-Provençal: soley
- Old French: soleil, souleil, soloil
- Gallo: soulai
- Middle French: soleil
- French: soleil
- Norman: solé
- Walloon: solea
- Tourangeau: soulé
- Occitano-Romance:
- Catalan: solell, solei
- Old Occitan: solelh, soleilh
- Occitan: solelh
- Ibero-Romance:
- ⇒ Spanish: solejar (“sunny place”)
References
- Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911), “*sōlĭculus”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 608
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “sōl”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 12: Sk–š, page 30