Reconstruction:Latin/contigire
Latin
Etymology
From contingere, apparently rebuilt around preterite inflections such as contigit.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /konteˈjire/
Verb
*contigīre (Proto-Ibero-Romance)
- to happen
Descendants
- Catalan: acontegir (Valencian)
- ⇒ Old Navarro-Aragonese: contexer
- Old Galician-Portuguese: [Term?]
- Old Spanish: contir, cuntir ⇒ contesçer
- ⇒ Spanish: acontecer
References
- Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1984) “acontecer”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume I (A–Ca), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 39