Reconstruction:Latin/ossamen

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

From oss- (“bone”) +‎ -āmen (suffix that took on a collective sense).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /osˈsamen/

Noun

*ossāmen n (Proto-Romance)

  1. bones (collectively); set of bones

Descendants

  • Balkan Romance:
    • Romanian: osamă (dialectal)
  • Italo-Romance:
    • Corsican: ossame, ussame
    • Italian: ossame
    • Neapolitan: ossamma, ussamma
    • Sicilian: ussami
  • North Italian:
    • Friulian: uessam
    • Ladin: ossam
    • Romansch: ossam
  • Occitano-Romance:
    • Catalan: ossam
  • Ibero-Romance:
  • Insular Romance:
    • Sardinian: ossamene
      Campidanese: ossamini
      • → Gallurese: ussamini

References

  • Rainer, Franz (30 October 2018) “Patterns and niches in diachronic word formation: the fate of the suffix -MEN from Latin to Romance”, in Morphology, volume 28, Springer Nature B. V., →DOI, page 414.
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