Reconstruction:Latin/pauta

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

Of obscure and highly debated origin; pre-Roman and (problematically) Germanic origins have both been proposed. Perhaps has to do with the personal name Pauto recorded in Roman inscriptions around Trier. Compare the synonymous *patta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpau̯ta/

Noun

*pauta f (Proto-Western-Romance)

1. paw

Descendants

• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: pota [1371]
  • Old French: poe [12th c.] (see there for further descendants)
  • Old Occitan: pauta
    • Occitan: pauta
    • →⇒ Basque: potika (“on all fours”)
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Navarro-Aragonese: pota [15th c.]
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: *pouta ⇒ Poutam, Poutom [1173–4 and 1258 respectively; surnames]
    • Galician: pouta
• Borrowings (or cognates):
  • →? Old Dutch: *pota
    • Middle Dutch: pôte
      • Dutch: poot
      • Limburgish: poeat
  • →? Old High German:
    • Rhine Franconian: pōt (Lorraine)
  • →? Old Saxon:
    • Middle Low German: pōte
      • → German: Pfote

References

• Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1985) “pata”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume IV (Me–Re), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 423
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “*pauta”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 8: Patavia–Pix, page 77