Reconstruction:Latin/glomiscellum

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

A diminutive based on glomus, with the ending seemingly take from *arbuscellum/*rāmuscellum/*rīvuscellum. Why this did not result in a form like *glomuscellum is unclear.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡlomesˈt͡sʲɛllu/

Noun

*glomiscellum m (Proto-Western-Romance)

  1. ball of yarn, tangle

Declension

singular plural
nominative */ɡlomesˈt͡sʲɛllos/ */ɡlomesˈt͡sʲɛlli/
oblique */ɡlomesˈt͡sʲɛllu/ *ɡlomesˈt͡sʲɛllos/

Descendants

  • Italo-Romance:
    • Italian: gomicello, gomiscello
  • Rhaeto-Romance:
    • Friulian: limiscel, lomiscel
    • Ladin: menescel
  • Gallo-Italic:
    • Emilian: gmisel, misel, gamsel, gumissel
    • Ligurian: giumescéllo, lumescéllo, rumescéllo, remescéllo
    • Lombard: gramissel, gumissel, gamissel, remissel, guminsel, rumissel, lumiscel
    • Piedmontese: grumissel, grumessel, gramissel, mussel, lumissel, limiscé, limsé
  • Gallo-Romance:
    • Franc-Comtois: gremeché
    • Occitan: glomisel, gusmet
      ⇒ Gascon: gusmeret, >? camushèth
      Limousin: gusseu
    • Old French: lemoissel
      • Middle French: lemuseau, remusseau
      • Picard: loinseau

References

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