Timeline for Are there Romance parallel descendants to Italian "cicalare" and Romanian "cicăli(re)"?
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| Apr 7 at 7:19 | comment | added | cipricus | No. Just like all the other Romance languages, French has a descendant from V.Lat. cicala: cigale, as in La Cigale et la Fourmi. And the corresponding verb ("cigaler", not yet in the dictionaries) is an ad hoc (playful, childish derivation) of La Fontaine's fable, meaning "to have fun instead of working". | |
| Apr 5 at 11:13 | comment | added | bli | @cipricus What you were looking for was clear to me. I mentioned this word because the etymology was reportedly uncertain in Wiktionary, so I thought that, given the similarities in sound, it could be interesting to have a look at this word to see it it could be a possible member of the "cicada" family. Are there regular correspondences between French "n" and Latin "d" and Romanian "l" or "r"? | |
| Apr 3 at 14:07 | comment | added | cipricus | From title and the context you could see that what I am looking for is in fact words with the same root and a similar meaning. Sorry if I wasn't clear enough, I have edited now. The French word is reported of Germanic or other origin, not from Latin cicada>cicala. | |
| Apr 3 at 12:45 | history | answered | bli | CC BY-SA 4.0 |