Reconstruction:Latin/miraculum

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 mīrā(rī) (“gaze at”) +‎ -culum (instrumental noun-forming suffix). Not to be confused with mīrāculum (“miracle”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /miˈraklu/

Noun

*mīrāculum ? (Proto-Italo-Western-Romance)

mirror

Descendants

North Italian:
- Lombard: miracc, mürecc (Alpine)
- Piedmontese: miraj
Gallo-Romance:
- Old Franco-Provençal: mireuz, mirex (plural)
  - Franco-Provençal: merall, mirall, mré, mirè, mira, mirai, mirèyu, mireu, meryu
- Old French: mirail
  - Franc-Comtois: merè
  - Bourbonnais-Berrichon: mirè
  - Bourguignon: mirguée
  - Middle French: miraulz (plural)
Occitano-Romance:
- Old Catalan: mirayl, mirall
  - Catalan: mirall
- Old Occitan: miralh
  - Occitan: miralh (dominant in the centre and west)
    Auvergnat: mirae, morau
    
    Limousin: eimirei
    
    Provençal: mirau, mirai (Niçard)
    
    Vivaro-Alpine: mirau
  - → Old Italian: miraglio (“mirror”)
    - Italian: miraglio (“topmark on a buoy”)
Ibero-Romance:
- Aragonese: mirallo

References

AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 675: “nello specchio” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
ALF: Atlas Linguistique de la France [Linguistic Atlas of France] – map 1634: “miroir” – on lig-tdcge.imag.fr
“mirall” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911), “mirare”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 410
Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “mīrari”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 6/2: Mercatio–Mneme, page 155

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