aciale

Latin

Alternative forms

acuāle (in glosses)

Etymology

From aciēs (“point”) +‎ -āle.

Noun

aciāle n (genitive aciālis); third declension

(Northern Italy, Late Latin) steel[1]

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, “pure” i-stem).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	aciāle	aciālia
Genitive	aciālis	aciālium
Dative	aciālī	aciālibus
Accusative	aciāle	aciālia
Ablative	aciālī	aciālibus
Vocative	aciāle	aciālia

Descendants

North Italian:
- Emilian: asàl (Parmigiano, Reggiano)
- Friulian: açâl
- Ladin: acià
  Fassano: aciàl, acèl
  Gardenese: acèl
  Moenese: aciàl
- Old Ligurian: azale
  - Ligurian: asà
    Monegasque: açaru
- Old Lombard: azale, azal
  - Lombard: azzal, azal
    Eastern Lombard: assàl
    Poschiavino: asciàl
- Piedmontese: assel
  Monferrino: assèe
- Romansch: atschal, atschel, itschal
- Old Venetian: açal, açale, açallo, azalle, azalo, azzal
  - Venetian: açal, çal, azhal, asal
    Central: assàle, assàe
    Valsuganese: sale
    - → Italian: azal
  - → Greek: ατσάλι (atsáli)
- → Old Italian: acciale, accialo
Gallo-Romance:
- Old Franco-Provençal: aciel
  - Franco-Provençal: aciel (Aosta)
Borrowings:
- → Old High German: ehhol, ecchel, ecchil, ecchol, ekol, ekil
  - Middle High German: eckel, ekkel (Bavarian)
    - Bavarian: Eckel (obsolete)
      Cimbrian: ékkel
      - →? Czech: jäkl, jekl (probably instead from the surname Jäkl)
    - → Slovene: jeklo
  - →? Old Frisian: etsel, eetsel, eetzil, eitzel, eetzel, ethzel, ezel, ezil, itsil (or from Latin aculeus)
    - West Frisian: isel, izel
- → Southern Common Slavic: *ocelь, *ocělь[2]
  - Old Czech: ocěl
    - Czech: ocel
    - → Polish: ocel
  - Old Church Slavonic: оцѣль (ocělĭ)
    - → Romanian: oțel
  - Rusyn: оціль (ocilʹ)
  - Serbo-Croatian: ocjel, оцјел
    Kajkavian: ocelj
    Ikavian: ocil, ocilj
  - Slovak: oceľ
  - Slovene: ocel
  - Upper Sorbian: wocl, wocel
  - → Dalmatian: azuol
  - → Hungarian: acél
  - → Istro-Romanian: acel

References

Pfister, Max; Schweickard, Wolfgang (1979-), “aciale”, in Lessico etimologico italiano, volume I: Ab—alburnus, Mainz: Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, page 408.
Vít Boček (2010) Studie k nejstarším romanismům ve slovanských jazycích (Studia etymologica Brunensia; 9), Praha: Nakladatelství Lidové noviny, →ISBN, OCLC 649802405, page 37.

[1] Pfister, Max; Schweickard, Wolfgang (1979-), “aciale”, in Lessico etimologico italiano, volume I: Ab—alburnus, Mainz: Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, page 408.

[2] Vít Boček (2010) Studie k nejstarším romanismům ve slovanských jazycích (Studia etymologica Brunensia; 9), Praha: Nakladatelství Lidové noviny, →ISBN, OCLC 649802405, page 37.