Reconstruction:Latin/cominitiare

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 com- +‎ initiāre.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /komenˈt͡sʲare/

Verb

*cominitiāre (Proto-Italo-Western-Romance)

begin, undertake

Reconstruction notes

The earliest attested descendant is Old French (10th c. CE, Sermon sur Jonah).^[1]

Descendants

Italo-Romance:
- Italian: cominciare
- Neapolitan: commenzare
- Sicilian: cuminciari, cuminzari
North Italian:
- Gallo-Italic:
  - Emilian: cminzèr
  - Romagnol: cmẽnzê
- Friulian: començâ
- Romansch: cumanzar, scumanzar (Surmiran), cumanzer (Puter)
- Venetan: scuminsiar, scuminçiar, scomensar, scominçiar, scomençar, scominsiar
Gallo-Romance:
- Catalan: començar
- Franco-Provençal: comenciér
- Old French: comencier, comenchier
  - Middle French: commencer
    - French: commencer (see there for further descendants)
  - Norman: c'menchier, c'menchi, quémenchi
  - Picard: cmincher
  - Walloon: kimincî
  - → Middle English: commencen
    - English: commence
- Occitan: començar
Ibero-Romance:
- Aragonese: comenzar
- Asturian: comenzar
- Extremaduran: comincial
- Old Galician-Portuguese: começar
  - Galician: comezar
  - Portuguese: começar
- Old Spanish: començar
  - Spanish: comenzar (see there for further descendants)

References

Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1984) “comenzar”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume II (Ce–F), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 157
Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “comĭnĭtiare”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 20: Autres langues, page 944

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

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

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