Reconstruction:Latin/tuccare

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

Borrowed from Frankish *tukkōn (“to touch, hit”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tokˈkare/

Verb

*tuccāre (Proto-Italo-Western-Romance)

1. to strike, knock
2. to touch

Descendants

• Balkan Romance:
  • Romanian: toca (uncertain, most likely a borrowing from Italian for expected *tuca)
• Gallo-Italian:
  • Venetan: tocar
• Iberian:
  • Aragonese: tocar
  • Asturian: tocar
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: tocar
    • Galician: tocar
    • Portuguese: tocar
  • Spanish: tocar
    • → Sardinian: tocae, tocai, tocare, togare
• Italo-Dalmatian:
  • Italian: toccare
  • Neapolitan: toccare
  • Sicilian: tuccari
• Oïl:
  • Old French: tochier, touchier, tucher
    • Middle French: toucher
      • French: toucher
        • → Dutch: toucheren
        • → German: touchieren
      • → German: tuschen
    • Norman: touchi (Jersiais)
    • Picard: toucheu, touchie (Athois)
    • Walloon: touchî (Charleroi), toucher (Liégeois)
    • → Dutch: toetsen
    • → Middle English: touchen, towchen, tochen
      • English: touch
    • (possibly) → West Frisian: tútsje
  • Old Northern French: *toquer, *tocquer
    • Middle French: toquer, tocquer
      • French: toquer
    • Picard: toqueu (Athois)
• Old Occitan: tocar
  • Catalan: tocar
  • Occitan: tocar, tochar
• Rhaetian:
  • Friulian: tocjâ
  • Romansch: tutgar, tuccar, tutgear