Reconstruction:Latin/casicare

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 cās- (“fall”) +‎ -icāre (verb-forming suffix), with early syncope of unstressed /ĭ/.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kasˈkare/

Verb

*cāsicāre (Proto-Italo-Western-Romance)

1. fall

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: cascare ⇒ cascata (“waterfall”) (see there for further descendants)

    Tuscan and central dialects: cascà

  • Neapolitan: cascà, cascàje, caschè (all in Abruzzo)
  • Sicilian: cascari
• North Italian:
  • Gallo-Italic:
    • Emilian: caschêr
    • Gallo-Italic of Sicily: [kasˈkaːrə] (Bronte), [kaʃˈker] (San Fratello)
    • Lombard: cascà (southern dialects)
    • Romagnol: caschêr
  • Istriot: cascà
  • Venetan: cascar

References

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 1257: “per far cascare” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
• Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911) “*casicare”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 138