Reconstruction:Latin/glomiscellus

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 glomus, made diminutive with the suffix -scellus, for which cf. *rīvuscellus < rīvus.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɡlomesˈcɛllos/

Noun

*glomiscellus m (Proto-Italo-Western-Romance)

ball of yarn, tangle

Related terms

Descendants

North Italian:
- Friulian: limiscel, lomiscel
- Ladin: menescel
- Gallo-Italic:
  - Emilian: gmisel, misel, gamsel, gumissel
  - Ligurian: giumescéllo, lumescéllo, rumescéllo, remescéllo
  - Lombard: gramissel, gumissel, gamissel, remissel, guminsel, rumissel, lumiscel
  - Piedmontese: grumissel, grumessel, gramissel, mussel, lumissel, limiscé, limsé
Gallo-Romance:
- Franc-Comtois: gremeché
- Old French: lemoissel
  - Middle French: lemuseau, remusseau
  - Picard: loinseau
Occitano-Romance:
- ⇒ Gascon: gusmeret
  >? camushèth
- Occitan: glomisel, gusmet
  Limousin: gusseu

References

Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911), “*glomiscellum”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 283
Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “*glŏmĭscĕllum”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 4: G H I, page 162

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