Reconstruction:Latin/miraculum

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 mīrārī (“gaze at”) +‎ -culum (instrumental noun-forming suffix). Not to be confused with the Classical Latin mīrāculum (“marvelous thing, miracle”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /miˈraʎʎu/

Noun

*mīrāculum (Proto-Western-Romance)

mirror

Descendants

Gallo-Italic:
- Lombard: miracc, mürecc (Alpine)
- Piedmontese: miraj
Northern Gallo-Romance:
- Old Franco-Provençal: mireuz, mirex (plural)
  - Franco-Provençal: merall, mirall, mré, mirè, mira, mirai, mirèyu, mireu, meryu
- Old French: mirail
  - Franc-Comtois: merè
  - Bourbonnais-Berrichon: mirè
  - Bourguignon: mirguée
  - Middle French: miraulz (plural)
Southern Gallo-Romance:
- Old Catalan: mirayl, mirall
  - Catalan: mirall
- Old Occitan: miralh
  - Occitan: miralh (dominant in the centre and west)
    Auvergnat: mirae, morau
    
    Limousin: eimirei
    
    Provençal: mirau, mirai (Niçard)
    
    Vivaro-Alpine: mirau
  - →? Italian: miraglio (possibly native)
Ibero-Romance:
- Aragonese: mirallo
- → Basque: miraila

References

AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 675: “nello specchio” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
ALF: Atlas Linguistique de la France^[1] [Linguistic Atlas of France] – map 1634: “miroir” – on lig-tdcge.imag.fr
“mirall” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911) “mirare”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 410
Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “mīrari”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 6/2: Mercatio–Mneme, page 155