Reconstruction:Latin/alemosyna

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

Alteration of Late Latin eleēmosyna (“alms”), borrowed from Greek ἐλεημοσύνη (eleēmosúnē, “alms”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aleˈmosɪna/

Noun

*alēmosyna f (oblique *alēmosynam); first declension (Proto-Romance)

1. alms

Descendants

• Balkan Romance:
  • → Albanian: lëmoshë (or via Germanic)
• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: limosina (popular)
  • Sicilian: limòsina
    • → Maltese: limosja
• Gallo-Italic:
  • Emilian: limòśna, limòşna, limôṡna
  • Ligurian: limôxina
  • Lombard: limòsna
  • Piedmontese: limòsna
• Northern Gallo-Romance:
  • Franco-Provençal: armôna, môrna, remôna, èrmôna
  • Old French: almosne, almone, aumone, aumosne
    • French: aumône
• Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Aragonese: almosna
  • Catalan: almoina
  • Occitan:

    Auvergnat: aumòrna, almòrna

    Gascon: aumoina

    Languedocien: almòina

    Limousin: aumòsna, armòina

    Provençal: aumòrna

    Vivaro-Alpine: aumoina, aumona

• Ibero-Romance:
  • Asturian: llimosna
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: elmosna, esmolna, esmolna, esmolla
    • Galician: esmola, elemosia, almosna, esmonla
    • Portuguese: esmola
  • Old Spanish: almosna
    • Spanish: limosna (see there for further descendants)
• Borrowings:
  • → Middle Welsh: *elusen
    • Welsh: elusen
  • → Old Irish: almsan
    • Middle Irish: almsa
      • Irish: almsa
  • → Proto-West Germanic: *alemōsinā (see there for further descendants)
  • → Proto-Slavic: *alъmužъna (or all borrowed from Germanic)
    • Czech: almužna
    • Polish: jałmużna
    • Slovak: almužna
    • Slovene: almužna
      • → Hungarian: alamizsna