Reconstruction:Proto-Italic/fēmanā

This Proto-Italic 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.

Proto-Italic

Etymology

From earlier *θēmanā, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁m̥h₁néh₂, from *dʰeh₁(y)- (“to nurse, suckle”).

Noun

*fēmanā f

1. woman

Declension

ā-stemDeclension of *fēmanā (ā-stem)
case	singular	plural
nominative	*fēmanā	*fēmanās
vocative	*fēmana	*fēmanās
accusative	*fēmanam	*fēmanans
genitive	*fēmanās	*fēmanāzom
dative	*fēmanāi	*fēmanais
ablative	*fēmanād	*fēmanais
locative	*fēmanāi	*fēmanais

Descendants

• Latin: fēmina
  • Dalmatian:
    • femia
  • Balkan Romance:
    • Aromanian: feamin
    • Romanian: famen
    • → Albanian: femër, femën — Gheg
  • Italo-Romance:
    • Corsican: femina
    • Istriot: fimana
    • Italian: femmina
    • Neapolitan: femmena
    • Sicilian: fìmmina
  • Sardinian:
    • femina, emina, femia
  • Padanian:
    • Lombard: femna, fomna, fonna
    • Friulian: femine
    • Ladin: femena
    • Piedmontese: fomna, fombra
    • Romansch: femna
    • Venetian: fémena
  • Northern Gallo-Romance:
    • Franco-Provençal: fèna
    • Old French: fame, fam, feme
      • Bourbonnais-Berrichon: fonne
      • Bourguignon: fanne, fonne
      • Champenois: fanme, fonme, fomme
      • Gallo: fame, fom
      • Lorrain: fomme
      • Middle French: femme (see there for further descendants)
      • Norman: femme, fâme, faume, faumme (Guernsey); foume (continental Normandy); fenme (Cotentin), foume, fenme
      • Picard: fanme, féme, feume
      • Walloon: feme
      • → Middle English: femme, feme
        • English: femme, feme
  • Southern Gallo-Romance:
    • Catalan: fembra
    • Old Occitan: femna, feme
      • Occitan: femna, (Gascon) hemna, frema
  • Ibero-Romance:
    • Asturian: fema
    • Old Galician-Portuguese: femea, femẽa, femẽa
      • Galician: femia, fema, fémea
      • Portuguese: fêmeo, fêmea
    • Old Spanish: femna, fembra, fembra
      • Spanish: hembra
        • → English: hembra
  • Borrowings:
    • → Ido: femino
    • → English: femina (perhaps via Italian)
    • → Spanish: fémina