Reconstruction:Latin/praecunctare

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 Classical Latin percontārī (“inquire, interrogate”), altered by contamination with the prefix prae- as well as the verb cūnctārī.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /preɡunˈtare/

Verb

*praecūnctāre (Proto-Ibero-Romance)

  1. to ask

Reconstruction notes

  • The per- in reflexes such as Portuguese perguntar are not a direct continuation of the per- in Latin percontārī, but rather a secondary development. This can be inferred from the adjacent consonant, /ɡ/, which must have been preceded by a vowel at the time in which the general lenition of intervocalic /k/ to /ɡ/ was taking place in early Western Romance.

Descendants

  • Aragonese: preguntar
  • Asturian: preguntar, perguntar
  • Extremaduran: perguntal
  • Mirandese: preguntar
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: preguntar
  • Spanish: preguntar (see there for further descendants)

References

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