Reconstruction:Latin/ranucula

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

Alternative forms

*grānucula

Etymology

From rāna (“frog”) +‎ -ucula (diminutive ending).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /raˈnokla/

Noun

*rānucula f (Proto-Italo-Western-Romance)

little frog

Declension

	singular	plural
nominative	*/raˈnokla/	*/raˈnoklas/
oblique	*/raˈnokla/	*/raˈnoklas/

Reconstruction notes

Competed with, and often displaced, rāna (“frog”). Variant with */ɡ-/ perhaps by analogy with animal names like grāculus (“jackdaw”).

Descendants

Italo-Romance:
- Italian: (g)ranocchia/-o
North Italian:
- Emilian: ranócc
- Romagnol: ranòcia
Rheto-Romance:
- Romansch: rangla
Gallo-Romance:
- Old Catalan: granolla
- Franco-Provençal: (g)renolye
- Old French: renoille (see there for further descendants)
- Gascon: graulha
- Old Occitan: granolha, granhola
  - Occitan: granolha

References

Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “*ranŭcŭla”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 10: R, page 60

Further information

AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 453: “la rana” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
ALF: Atlas Linguistique de la France [Linguistic Atlas of France] – map 668: “grenouille” – on lig-tdcge.imag.fr

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