Reconstruction:Latin/ergere

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 ērigō via syncope of intertonic /ĭ/ and lowering of the stressed vowel, perhaps by analogy with pergō.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈɛrɡʲere/

Verb

*ergere (past participle *erctum) (Proto-Italo-Western-Romance)

raise

Reconstruction notes

The modern Ibero-Romance verbs were rebuilt from the 1SG form */ˈɛrɡo/ (> Spanish yergo, Portuguese ergo), hence they have /ɡ/ rather than /θ/ or /ʒ/ throughout their inflection paradigms.

Descendants

Italo-Romance:
- Italian: ergere
- Neapolitan: irgere, irgire (Cosenza)
- Sicilian: irghiri
Rhaeto-Romance:
- Ladin: erjer
- ⇒ Romansch: derscher
Gallo-Romance:
- Old French: erdre
  - Norman: erdre
  - Picard: erdre
- Old Occitan: erdre, erzer, ⇒ derzer
  - Vivaro-Alpine: erzer
Ibero-Romance:
- Asturian: erguer
- Old Galician-Portuguese: erger
  - ⇒ Galician: erguer
  - ⇒ Portuguese: erguer
- Old Spanish: erzer, erger
  - Spanish: ercer (obsolete), ⇒ erguir

References

Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1984) “erguir”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume II (Ce–F), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 655
Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “erĭgere”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 3: D–F, page 240