User:Catonif/connections

Unsourced semantical and etymological connections that arose thanks to the project being very connected.
 * Regional and, both  and both ultimately from . Only two descendants that maintain one of the original meanings of the Latin etymon.
 * , and, all.
 * not containing the stem of in Romanesco,  and.
 * and, both . A pre-PIE root *(s)trómP-o- is reconstructible, and archeological evidence shows that spinning tops are very old. The Spanish word is claimed to be from , but that seems semantically difficult, while the Greek one is admitted to be from a pre-Greek substrate.
 * in and.
 * noun/adj
 * on the other hand, , , , likely have a quite different usage
 * what about ,
 * Italian dialects and Osco-Umbrian: Calabrian, Lucanian , Apulian.
 * Tosk 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬, both of unclear origin, and both regularly reconstructible to a form *āpʰā. The Albanian shift of *ā- > *ō- > T. va- ~ G. vo- is well known, cf. . For the aspirated pʰ, early Paleo-Balkan languages likely aspirated their voiceless occlusives much more than modern Albanian does, cf. Greek loans, , ultimately loosing the aspiration. Cf. also the Illyrian king called  by the Romans and Γένθιος by the Greeks.
 * Italian dialects and Osco-Umbrian: Calabrian, Lucanian , Apulian.
 * Tosk 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬, both of unclear origin, and both regularly reconstructible to a form *āpʰā. The Albanian shift of *ā- > *ō- > T. va- ~ G. vo- is well known, cf. . For the aspirated pʰ, early Paleo-Balkan languages likely aspirated their voiceless occlusives much more than modern Albanian does, cf. Greek loans, , ultimately loosing the aspiration. Cf. also the Illyrian king called  by the Romans and Γένθιος by the Greeks.

Failed connections
For these I'd like to cite :
 * Having spotted the Italian word, assuming it was a regional, autochthonous term, Italic origin seemed evident: a form , from , whence , and also attested in Umbrian. On a second thought, word-formation by duplication, while by no means rare, did not make much sense for this. Hence an even more plausible, and dare I say, undeniable . After the loss of the word in the Romance dialect, the assimilation of the  with the following  would be more than expected, since pretty much all dialects of Italy mess up pre-consonantal  and , I'd recommend one to check AIS 586. Turns out the word is actually an internationalism from Arabic.
 * Another stroke of genius was with the two Italian terms and, both quite clearly from an Italic verb , the former through Latin as an adjective, and the latter through Italic as a substantivised present participle. The Italic verb would be transparently akin to . Turns out,  does not actually exist, as the word was borrowed from French in the 15th century.
 *  it is important to stress that this interpretation is not a poor, but a brilliant one. It conforms with difficult requirements, and the etymological equations on which it is based are almost evident. No doubt, this is the etymological method at its best. The proposed interpretation has only one fundamental weakness, namely that of being demonstrably wrong.