Talk:madrugar

Etymology?

I've added {{rfe|lang=es}} to the page to add a request for etymology. (I work with Japanese, not Spanish, so I don't know enough to add the etymology myself.) -- Eiríkr Útlendi │ Tala við mig 15:49, 7 June 2013 (UTC)

@Eirikr: Hi, I saw your {{rfe}}. I don't think this is surprising; see, for example: matutinus, a Latin adjective for early morning deriving from Proto-Italic *matū-. The divinity cited also likely has an Oscan cognate from the same Proto-Italic root, whereas from the PIE root (*meh₂- (“to ripen, mature”)) we also have māne, etc., and the (rare) Old Latin word mānus (second sense). The conflation of earliness with ripeness/maturity is original to PIE and formed a doublet in Latin, both branches carrying this sense in varying degrees, one providing the French word for morning (matin), and the other giving this word in Spanish. I'm not sure how much context should be included in the etymology, though. Isomorphyc (talk) 16:26, 1 October 2016 (UTC)