Reconstruction:Oscan/𐌀𐌁𐌄𐌋𐌋𐌀

This Oscan 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.

Oscan

Etymology

Virgil calls the city mālifera (“apple-bearing”):

29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 7.740:
[…] et quos maliferae despectant moenia Abellae, […]

This has made many scholars connect the toponym to Proto-Indo-European *h₂ébōl (“apple”).^[1]

Alternatively possibly related to Latin aper (“boar”).^[2]

Proper noun

*𐌀𐌁𐌄𐌋𐌋𐌀 • (*abella) f

Abella, today's Avella (a town in Campania)

Derived terms

𐌀𐌁𐌄𐌋𐌋𐌀𐌍𐌔 (abellans, “Abellan; of Abella”)

Descendants

→ Latin: Abella

References

^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “Abella”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 20
^ Buck, Carl Darling (1904) A Grammar of Oscan and Umbrian: With a Collection of Inscriptions and a Glossary, page 60

[1] De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “Abella”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 20

[2] Buck, Carl Darling (1904) A Grammar of Oscan and Umbrian: With a Collection of Inscriptions and a Glossary, page 60

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