Reconstruction:Latin/ranucula

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 rāna (“frog”) +‎ -ucula ('vulgar' diminutive ending).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /raˈnokla/

Noun

*rānucula f (Proto-Italo-Western-Romance)

little frog

Declension

	singular	plural
nominative	*/raˈnokla/	*/raˈnoklas/
oblique	*/raˈnokla/	*/raˈnoklas/

Reconstruction notes

Initial /ɡ/ added to various descendants by analogy with grāculus (“jackdaw”), etc.

Descendants

Italo-Romance:
- Italian: ranocchia, ranocchio
  Tuscan: ranocchia, ranocchio, granocchia, granocchio
North Italian:
- Emilian: ranócc
- Romagnol: ranòcia
Gallo-Romance:
- Franco-Provençal: renolye, grenolye
- Old French: renoille, reinoille, renoulle; grenoille
  - Middle French: renouille; grenouille, guernouille
    - French: grenouille
Occitano-Romance:
- Old Catalan: granolla
- Gascon: graulha
- Old Occitan: granolha, granhola
  - Occitan: granolha

References

AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 453: “la rana” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
ALF: Atlas Linguistique de la France [Linguistic Atlas of France] – map 668: “grenouille” – on lig-tdcge.imag.fr
Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “*ranŭcŭla”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 10: R, page 58

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