Reconstruction:Latin/fangus
Appearance
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Of Germanic origin.
- Possibly from Frankish, from Proto-Germanic *fanją (“swamp, fen”).[1] Compare Dutch veen and English fen.
- Alternatively from Gothic [Term?] (“mud”), from Proto-Germanic *fangō (“mud, swamp”), ultimately related to the option above. Compare German feucht, Dutch vocht, Old English fūht.
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Noun
[edit]*fangus m or *fanga f or *fania f
Descendants
[edit]- Italian: fango m, fanga f
- Old French: fanc m, fange f
- Walloon: fanie, fagne f[2]
- → French: fagne
- Occitan:
- Catalan: fang m
- → Spanish: fango
- →? Albanian: fëng / fang m (“infertile land”)[4]
- Sicilian: fangu m
References
[edit]- ^ “fange”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
- ^ “fagne”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 “fango”, in Grande dizionario della lingua italiana, volume 5 e–fin, UTET, 1968, page 638ff.
- ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “fëng ~ fang”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 96
Further reading
[edit]- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “fani”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 15/2: Germanismes: Bu–F, page 108
- AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 849: “il fango” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
- ALF: Atlas Linguistique de la France[1] [Linguistic Atlas of France] – map 154: “boue” – on lig-tdcge.imag.fr