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Reconstruction:Latin/ieniperus

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

Alteration of iūniperus. Surfaces in the Appendix Probi under the form ⟨ziniperus⟩.[1] Later surfaces in various ninth-century manuscripts under the spellings ⟨giniperus, giniperu, geniperi⟩.[2]

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

Noun

*ieniperus m

  1. juniper

Descendants
  • Italo-Romance:
    • Italian: ginepro
    • Sicilian: jinìparu
  • Insular Romance:
    • Old Sardinian: [Term?]
      • Gallurese: niparu
      • Logudorese: nibaru
      • Sassarese: zinibbari
  • North Italian:
    • Gallo-Italic:
      • Emilian: zenvar, znever
      • Lombard: zenivru, zanibru, zenever
      • Old Ligurian: zeneivro
        • Ligurian: zenéivio
      • Piedmontese: zenèiver, geneiver, zneivar
    • Friulian: zenevre, genevre
    • Ladin: jeneivar
    • Romansch: ganaivar, jünaivar, geneivar
    • Venetian: xenevro
  • Gallo-Romance:
  • Occitano-Romance:
    • Catalan: ginebre
    • Gascon: genèbre, ginèbre
    • Occitan: genibre
      Provençal: genèbre
      Vivaro-Alpine: genebre
  • Ibero-Romance:
    • Aragonese: chinepro, chinebro, chinabro, chinarro
    • Old Portuguese: *jĩebro, *jĩbro
    • Spanish: enebro
  • Borrowings:
    • → Basque: ipuru
    • → Middle Breton: genevreg
    • →? Old Norse: einir (see there for further descendants)

References
  1. J. G. F. Powell. 2007. A New Text of the "Appendix Probi". The Classical Quarterly. 57 (02): 700. doi:10.1017/S0009838807000638.
  2. Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “jŭnĭpĕrus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 5: J L, page 74
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