assalio
Latin
Alternative forms
- adsaliō
Etymology
From ad- + saliō, replacing the Classical equivalent assiliō (the latter showing historical reduction of unstressed /a/). Attested from the time of the Lex Salica onwards.[1]
Verb
assaliō (present infinitive assalīre, perfect active assalīvī, supine assaltum); fourth conjugation (Late Latin)
Descendants
- Italo-Romance:
- Italian: assalire
- Western Romance: (with freq. extension of /ʎ/ from the 1SG form)
- Old Catalan: assalir, assallir
- Old French: assalir, assaillir (see there for further descendants)
- Old Occitan: assaly, assalhir
- Romansch: assaglir
References
- adsalire in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “*assalīre”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 25: Refonte Apaideutos–Azymus, page 504
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