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Reconstruction:Latin/brasa

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

Uncertain. Perhaps from a pre-latin substrate or from Proto-West Germanic *brasa, from a Proto-Germanic root related to *brewwaną (“to boil, seethe, brew”).[1] However, compare Proto-Indo-European *bʰres- (“to crack, break, burst”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): (Proto-Romance) /ˈbrasa/

Noun

*brasa f (oblique *brasam); first declension

  1. ember

Descendants
  • Italo-Romance:
    • Neapolitan: vrasa, vraja
    • Sicilian:
      Calabrian: vrasa
  • Padanian: (some possibly via *brasea)
    • Emilian: brèsa, brasa ⇒ brès
    • Ligurian: brâxa
    • Lombard: brasa, bras
    • Piedmontese: brasa, brèsa, braxa
    • Romagnol: bréxa, bréixa, bräixa ⇒ bréx
    • Venetian: braxa, bras
  • Northern Gallo-Romance:
    • Franco-Provençal: brâsa
      Bressan: brôja
      Fribourgeois: brâja
    • Old French: breze
    • Picard: bresse
  • Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Ibero-Romance:
  • ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *brasea:
  • ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *brasica:

References
  1. Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN
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