Reconstruction:Latin/peturnicula

Etymology
and suffixed with.

Noun

 * 1) partridge

Reconstruction notes
Some sources give the reconstruction as, implying that it took on the /r/ of. If so the sound would have been lost early on, perhaps via dissimilation, to judge by its absence from the descendants.

Some follow an alternative etymology <  <. The problems are as follows:
 * It would not be clear why */kw/ should have developed at all, and in any case its only attested outcome before a rounded vowel is /k/ (as elsewhere in Romance) and not /p/. Cf. the Romanian, < ,.
 * It would not be clear why the descendants mean "partridge" rather than "quail".
 * It would not be clear why the first vowel yields /e~i/ in Aromanian and /ə~o/ in Romanian.

Others have proposed <, a supposed Oscan variant of Latin , and  < , a modification by onomatopoeia (cf.  "quail" or the English ). Both proposals run into the aforementioned semantic and vocalic issues.