Reconstruction:Latin/praecunctare

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 Classical Latin percontārī (“inquire, interrogate”), altered by contamination with the prefix prae- as well as the verb cūnctārī.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /preɡunˈtar/

Verb

*praecūnctāre (Proto-Ibero-Romance)

to ask
to wonder

Reconstruction notes

Some of the descendants show a return of the first /r/ to its original position (e.g. Portuguese perguntar). That this is a secondary development is demonstrated by the fact that original /k/ experienced intervocalic lenition everywhere.

Descendants

Aragonese: preguntar
Asturian: preguntar, perguntar
Extremaduran: perguntal
Mirandese: preguntar
Old Galician-Portuguese: preguntar
- Galician: preguntar, perguntar
- Portuguese: perguntar, (archaic or dialectal) preguntar
Spanish: preguntar (see there for further descendants)

References

Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1985) “preguntar”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volumes IV (Me–Re), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 635

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