- λαμπάς
abajur < Fra. abat-jour New Year's Eve
Nochevieja < Lat.
noctis +
veclus < vetūlus
Reveillon < Fra.
Reveillon frisson escalofrío < Lat. + prefix...
- hac 'this' + hora. old
vetus OFr. viet, Sp. viedo, OPt. vedro, It.
vieto veclus Fr. vieux, Occ. vièlh, Cat. vell, Sp. viejo, Pt. velho, It. vecchio, Ro...
- bl kl ɡl/.
Syncope in TUL
resulted in /kl/, as in
VETULUS > Late
Latin VECLUS. Post-pausal or post-consonantal. Most
commonly word-initial, even more...
- meaning, as in
Italian capo "head",
alongside testa);
vetus "old" >
vetulus >
veclus (Dalmatian vieklo,
Italian vecchio,
Portuguese velho, etc.).
Sometimes augmentative...
-
developed only to [ʎ] ll, as in
muliere 'wife' > muller,
oricla 'ear' > orella,
veclu 'old' > vell,
without the
further change seen in
Spanish to j (Old Spanish...
