Reconstruction:Latin/iantare

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 ientāre, via haplology from ieientāre (“to eat breakfast”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁yaǵ- (“to sacrifice”).

Verb

*iantāre (Proto-Western-Romance)

1. to lunch; to dine

Descendants

• Old Galician-Portuguese: jantar, iãtar, iantar, jãtar, yantar
  • Galician: xantar
  • Portuguese: jantar (see there for further descendants)
• Old Leonese: iantar, yantar
  • Asturian: xintar
  • Asturian: xantar (Western)
• Old Spanish: yantar
  • Spanish: yantar
• Romansch: gentar

References

• Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911) “4584. jentare”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 331
• Ernout, Alfred, Meillet, Antoine (1985) “iēiūnus, -a, -nm”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots‎^[1] (in French), 4th edition, with additions and corrections of Jacques André, Paris: Klincksieck, published 2001, page 307a
• Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1991) “yantar”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume VI (Y–Z), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 11