Reconstruction:Latin/aetaticum

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) age

Reconstruction notes
Attested in Old French from ca. 1100 as  and Old Franco-Provençal from the thirteenth century as eajo. Originated in the north, where it competed with and eventually displaced the descendants of Latin (> Old French ), possibly due to severe phonetic attrition in the latter. Failed to penetrate south in the early Gallo-Roman period, judging by the absence of from Occitan and Catalan, which have instead retained Latin  (> ). Both later borrowed the French word as.

The expected gender of nouns with this suffix in Gallo-Romance is masculine. The variable gender of Old French may be due to contamination with the aforementioned synonym.

Descendants

 * Old