Reconstruction:Latin/quassicare

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 quassō (“strike”) +‎ -icāre (frequentative suffix).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /kwasˈkaːɾ/

Verb

*quassicāre (Proto-Western-Romance)

hit, strike

Descendants

Gallo-Romance:
- Catalan: cascar
- Occitan: cascar
Ibero-Romance:
- Galician: cascar
- Portuguese: cascar
- Spanish: cascar
  - →? Sardinian: cascai

References

Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911) “*quassĭcāre”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 520

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