Reconstruction:Latin/bornium

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

Uncertain. Perhaps of from a pre-Roman substrate (compare how ab oculis went through similar history), from a putative term originally meaning “with a hole (where the eye should be)” from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerH- (“to pierce, make a hole”). The common toponym Borne could be akin to this and have originally meant “cavity”.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbɔɾɲo/

Adjective

*bornium (Proto-Gallo-Romance)

  1. one-eyed
  2. blind

Descendants

  • North Italian:
    • Piedmontese: bòrgn, bòrgno (borrowed?)
  • Gallo-Romance:
  • Occitano-Romance:
    • Catalan: borni
    • Occitan: bòrni, bòrnhi, bòrnhe (all dialects)
      Languedocien: bòrlhe, buòrnhe, buòrlhe
      Nord-Occitan: borlhe
      Vivaro-Alpine: buòrnhe, buòrlhe, buòrli, buarnhi

References

  1. ^ “borgne”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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