diâblo

Franco-Provençal

Alternative forms

Alternative forms

• dyablo (Old Beaujolais)
• dya̱ble, dya̱blou (Bressan)
• diàou (Piemontais)
• dyablo (Savoyard)
• djyabló (Valaisan)
• djablo (Valdôtain)
• diâbllo (ORB, narrow)
  • dyâbyo (Fribourgeois)

Etymology

From Latin diabolus.

Noun

diâblo m (plural diâblos) (ORB, broad)

1. devil

References

• diable in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
• diâbllo in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

Further information

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 805: “il diavolo” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
• ALF: Atlas Linguistique de la France^[1] [Linguistic Atlas of France] – map 403: “le diable” – on lig-tdcge.imag.fr
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “diabolus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 3: D–F, page 63