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Reconstruction:Latin/ossamen

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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

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Etymology

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From oss- (bone) +‎ -āmen (suffix that took on a collective sense).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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*ossāmen n (Proto-Romance)

  1. bones (collectively); set of bones

Descendants

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  • Balkan Romance:
    • Romanian: osamă (dialectal)
  • Italo-Romance:
  • North Italian:
  • Occitano-Romance:
  • Ibero-Romance:
  • Insular Romance:

References

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  • Rainer, Franz (2018 October 30) “Patterns and niches in diachronic word formation: the fate of the suffix -MEN from Latin to Romance”, in Morphology, volume 28, Springer Nature B. V., →DOI, page 414.