Reconstruction:Latin/sonaculum

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

From sonā(re) (“make noise”) +‎ -culum (instrumental noun-forming suffix).

Pronunciation

(Proto-Italo-Western-Romance) IPA^(key): /soˈnaklu/

Noun

*sonāculum n (plural *sonācula)

a rattle

Descendants

North Italian:
- Gallo-Italic:
  - Ligurian: sunàggio m
  - Piedmontese: sonaj m, sonaja f
Gallo-Romance:
- Old Franco-Provençal: [Term?]
  - Franco-Provençal: sonalye f
  - → Old French: sonnaille
    - French: sonnaille
- Old French: sonail m
  - Franc-Comtois: sougnâ, souná m
  - Norman: souniau m (Fourges)
Occitano-Romance:
- Catalan: sonall m, sonalla f
- Occitan: sonalh m, sonalha f
  - → Italian: sonaglio m
  - → Sicilian: sunagghiu m
Ibero-Romance: f
- Galician: soalla
- Portuguese: soalha
- Spanish: sonaja

References

Tuttle, Edward Fowler. 1975. Studies in the derivational suffix -āculum: Its Latin origin and its Romance development. Tübingen: Niemeyer. Page 31.
Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “sŏnare”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 12: Sk–š, page 99 (see also footnote 16)