Reconstruction:Latin/dismenticare

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 dis- (privative) +‎ ment- (“mind”) +‎ -icāre (verb-forming suffix).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /desmenteˈkare/

Verb

*dismenticāre (Proto-Italo-Western-Romance)

forget

Reconstruction

The outcomes without /d/ seem to reflect sporadic substitution of the prefix dis- with ex-. (Interchange between the two privatives is common, especially in Italy.) The preponderance of the /d/ forms,[1] however, suggests that *dismenticāre is original.

Descendants

Italo-Romance:
- Italian: dimenticare, dismenticare; smenticare
  - →? Dalmatian: dementicur
  - → Sardinian: ismenticare, ismentigare
North Italian:
- Gallo-Italic:
  - Emilian: sminghèr
  - Ligurian: smentià
  - Lombard: desmentegà, dumentegà, dismantigà
  - Piedmontese: dësmentié, smentié
- Friulian: dismenteâ
- Istriot: desmaèntegà
- Ladin: desmentièr
- Venetian: desmentegar

References

AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 1649: “hai dimenticato che dovevi condurci in cima?” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it

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[1] AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 1649: “hai dimenticato che dovevi condurci in cima?” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it